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2018 NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Symposium

Event Dates
Location
Washington State Convention Center
Address

Seattle, WA

The NIJ Forensic Science R&D Symposium is a free and open meeting where attendees learn about NIJ-funded research across a variety of forensic science areas.

Presentation topics include:
- The Macromorphoscopic Databank: A New Tool for Forensic Anthropologists
- Modeling Surface Morphology of the Pubic Symphysis: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools for the Objective Estimation of Age-at-Death for Modern Populations
- Building a Science of Adult Cranial Fracture
- Standardizing Data for a Large-Scale, Whole Body CT Image Database
- Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis
- Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence on Common Surface Types
- Forensic Geosourcing Potential of the Human Microbiome
- Candidates of Skin Microbiomes for Human Identification
- Multi-locus Match Probability Dependencies
- Record Linkage of CODIS Profiles with SNP Genotypes
- Microhaplotypes Analyzed by Massively Parallel Sequencing Are Valuable Forensic Tools
- Production of High-Fidelity Electropherograms Results in Improved and Consistent Match-Statistics: Standardizing Forensic Validation by Coupling Laboratory Specific Experimental Data with an In Silico DNA Pipeline

Date Created: February 3, 2021