Familial DNA Searching: Current Approaches – Part I

Overview This four-part panel discussion series will elucidate the current landscape of policies and procedures addressing familial DNA searching. Part I These discussions were used to generate a report designed to educate legal professionals, policy makers, law enforcement and forensic…

Webinar: Expansion of Microbial Forensics [Archival]

Overview Dr. Bruce Budowle, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and Dr. Heather Jordan, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University, presented on biocrime, postmortem interval and agroterrorism. Participants will gain a better understanding of…

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

Overview 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…

Genome ID Forum 2014 – Emerging Technologies for Human Remains Identification

Overview 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. A certificate…

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

Overview 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.…