The annual International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) conference, which is being held in Phoenix, Arizona in the US from Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2014, is an event that the DNA Project is very excited about as our founder Vanessa Lynch joins this year’s lineup of invited guest speakers.
The ISHI is an annual international conference for the DNA forensic community that provides the opportunity to learn, share and network amongst industry peers and experts.
Vanessa’s presentation on the 1st of October entitled “The DNA Project: The Crusade to Bring a National Forensic DNA Database to Fight Crime in South Africa” will include discussing the challenges in campaigning to pass the DNA Act in South Africa, some of its salient provisions and how she plans to continue to campaign for its effective implementation in conjunction with a national crime scene awareness programme driven by the DNA Project.
A map outlining the various delegates' hometowns.
Delegates from across the globe will be in attendance to listen to a wide range of topics presented by expert speakers across the 3-day conference. Topics such as:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
- The Evolution of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Analysis and Criminal Profiling From an Investigative Perspective – John Douglas – Keynote Speaker
- DNA Fingerprinting in Forensics: Past, Present and Future – Lutz Roewer, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Berlin
- The Birth of DNA Testing: A 25 Year Prospective – Jeff Ashton, Orange County State Attorney’s Office & Michael Baird, DNA Diagnostics Center
- Fighting Trafficking in Persons with the aid of DNA Technologies – Timothy Palmbach, University of New Haven
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1
- Making Sense of DNA Backlogs, 2012 Myths vs. Reality – Charles Heurich, National Institute of Justice
- Analysis of Low-Template DNA Profiles in the Kercher Case – David Balding, University College London
- Just Like in the Movies: A Daring Robbery – Farida al Shamali, Dubai Police Department
- Eyewitness Sketch to CODIS – Jennifer Kay, Florida Department of Law Enforcement
- Exhumation and DNA Helped Solve an Aspiring Model’s Death 25 Years Later – Tiffany Shew and Steve Renteria, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
- Intrafamily Sexual Assaults on Children: Have you Considered the Possibility of DNA Transfer in the Laundry? – Sarah Noel, Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medicine Legale
- Human Evolution as Revealed by Neanderthals – Edward Green, University of California Santa Cruz
- The Identification of World War II Soldier PFC Lawrence S. Gordon – Erin Sweeney and Jed Henry, Bode Technology
We hope to provide our followers with updates on all the happenings at the conference via Facebook and Twitter… so keep a watchful eye out!
We wish Vanessa a wonderful trip and the very best with her presentation =)
To learn more about the ISHI conference, please visit their website: http://ishinews.com/
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