Webinar: Evaluating Transfers of Materials and their Significance [Archival]

This archived one-hour webinar covers basic principles of trace evidence that serve as decision-making tools for forensic scientists to use in examining, sampling, testing and evaluating associative evidence. How strong is an association when evidence is being examined, and what…

Error & Uncertainty in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

This presentation provided a general introduction to the concepts of error and uncertainty as well as the differences between them. It will then apply these concepts to quantitative and qualitative aspects of bloodstain pattern analysis. Error and uncertainty are two…

Genome ID Forum 2014 – Emerging Technologies for Human Remains Identification

Originally presented at the 2014 Genome ID Forum, an overview of the Laboratory’s new Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instrumentation and protocol development is discussed including experimental design utilizing multiple forensic markers and the impact on sample processing. Funding for this…

Webinar: Efficiency Improvements [Archival]

This archived webinar, the fifth in ASCLD’s webinar series, Confronting Crime Laboratory Backlogs: Causes, Solutions, Expectations, covers specific examples of efficiency concepts applied to real forensic case workflow in a full service crime laboratory. In this presentation you will learn…

Webinar: Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA) Workshop [Archival]

This is the archival version of the two-day workshop hosted by the SOFT Continuing Education and Drug-Facilitated Crimes Committees with the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault on August 11-12, 2014 in Washington DC. The…

DNA RADAR™ Innovations in Human Identification

DNA RADAR™ is an innovative and proprietary NGS platform that provides a complete human identification solution including CODIS and ENFSI markers, phenotype markers for blood type, hair and eye color, ancestry and prediction of SURNAME. Funding for this Forensic Technology…

Webinar: Developing a Statewide Approach to Backlog Management [Archival]

This archival is the final webinar in this ASCLD’s webinar series on Confronting Crime Laboratory Backlogs: Causes, Solutions, Expectations. This webinar takes participants from defining their customers and demonstrating how to establishing two way relationships with them, to developing business…

Developing a Dynamic Model of the DNA Lab Process

This webinar detailed the development of a model that synthesizes, in silico, allele, stutter and noise signal generated from stochastic variation induced by the forensic DNA laboratory process. Funding for this Forensic Technology Center of Excellence event has been provided…

Demystifying Vacuum Metal Deposition [Archival]

This course is directed to Crime Scene Investigators, Bureaus of Identification, and Forensic Science Laboratory Examiners. The information will help departments justify the cost of a Vacuum Metal Deposition and demonstrate to the fingerprint industry that VMD has been one…

Crime Scene Imaging: A Practitioner’s Perspective

This is an archival version of a web based panel discussion of forensic practitioners. These practitioners have adopted and implemented one of three panoramic crime scene imaging technologies, SceneVision-Panorama, Panoscan MK-3, and Leica ScanStationC10. The goal of this event it…