Dr. Amy J. Heston, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Walsh University in North Canton Ohio, presented at the QM Research Online Conference. The title of the session was “Research and Innovation in Forensic Science: Achieving Quality Matters Course Certification.” Heston completed the Quality Matters (QM) Teaching Online Certificate and is a QM Master Reviewer in […]
Rebecca Richards from the University of Auckland in New Zealand presented at London Calling 2019 on “Biological evidence of the future: the use of sequencing in forensic science.” They spoke about forensic DNA profiling by analyzing STRs and capillary gel electrophoresis. This analysis looks at the length of the repeats. However, there are limitations: no […]
Rupesh Kesharwani from the Baylor College of Medicine, HGSC & University of North Texas HSC, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston on “STRspy 2.0: unlocking the potential of long reads for forensic DNA profiles.” They shared that STRs are short tandem 2-7 bp repeats that account for 3% of the human genome. Individuals have […]
Rupesh Kesharwani from the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine presented at London Calling 2022 a session entitled “STRspy-ing hidden variation in forensic DNA profiles with the MinION.” Kesharwani is a senior scientific programmer and explained that short tandem repeats (STR) vary in number between individuals. They spoke about cases solved with […]
Courtney Hall from the University of North Texas Health Science Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “STRspy-ing hidden variation in forensic DNA profiles using the MinION device.” Hall spoke about how short tendem repeats (STRs) are often used as the “gold standard for human identification in forensic investigations” due to their variability […]