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Relationship Testing Workshop 2010.

 
Blood samples and a paper challenge for the 2010 Relationship Testing Workshop of the English Speaking Working Group of the ISFG were on 8 February 2010 sent from Copenhagen to laboratories that have signed up for the workshop.
 
Answers and typing results must be submitted online at the web site of the "Relation Testing Workshop" :http://www.rtw-eswg.forensic.ku.dk.
Posted 28 days and 20 hours ago by Professor Niels Morling, MD DMSc (Last modified 28 days and 20 hours ago)

ISFG 2007 Presentations online

 
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The presentations from the educational workshops, the programme and abstracts, as well as picture albums of the highlights of the 22nd International Congress in Copenhagen in 2007 are now available online.
Posted 1 month and 24 days ago by Professor Niels Morling, MD DMSc (Last modified 1 month and 24 days ago)

Course in Forensic Genetics, 7-9 June 2010 in Copenhagen.

 
The Copenhagen Forensic Genetic Summer School will be held 7-9 June 2010. There will be two parallel educational courses:
 
  • Course A: Interpretation of complex STR results.
  • Course B: Disaster Victim identification, mtDNA and Y-chromosome DNA in forensic genetics.
 
Here, you find a pdf-file with Preliminary announcement.
 
The announcement was last updated on 23 January 2010.
 
Further information will be made available as soon as possible.
 
Posted 2 months and 9 days ago by Professor Niels Morling, MD DMSc (Last modified 1 month and 16 days ago)

FORENSICA 2010 in the Czech Republic

 
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The 2nd International Conference on Forensic Genetics will be held 24th - 26th May 2010 in Telč, The Czech Republic. Please visit the conference website FORENSICA 2010 for further details.
Posted 2 months and 12 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 2 months and 12 days ago)

ESWG Relationship Testing Workshop 2010

 
The next ESWG Relationship Testing Workshop will be held in the beginning of 2010. The RTW will be organised by The Section of Forensic Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Please visit the homepage of the ESWG.
Posted 2 months and 16 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 2 months and 12 days ago)

Workshop on Haploid DNA Markers in Berlin

 
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Registration to the 7th International Y Chromosome User Workshop / 4th International EMPOP meeting in Berlin, April 22-24, 2010 is now open. Please check out the announcement on the YHRD website
Posted 2 months and 27 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 1 month and 24 days ago)

ESWG Meeting 2010

 
The next meeting of the English Speaking Working Group will be held 8-11 September 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. The meeting will be organized by Professor Bertil Lindblom and co-workers. Below, you find pdf-files with:
 

Programme

 

Themes

 

Registration form

 

Abstract form

Posted 3 months and 5 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 3 months and 4 days ago)

Proceedings of ISFG 2009

 
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The proceedings of the 23rd ISFG Congress, September 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Progress in Forensic Genetics 13, are now openly available from FSI Genetics: Supplement. All publications can be obtained without restriction in PDF format. Links to previous issues of the "Progress" series are given on our Congress Proceedings page.
Posted 3 months and 7 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 3 months and 7 days ago)

Biostatistical software tools

 
At the recent EDNAP meeting in Edinburgh in Oct. 2009 a decision was made to offer free software resources for biostatistical analysis of forensic cases on the ISFG website. Scientists are invited to test the available tools for the R Statistical Software package, develop their own codes, or add other resources. Please visit the new Software page of the DNA Commission.
Posted 4 months and 18 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 4 months and 10 days ago)

23rd ISFG Congress presentations online

 
Several speakers of the educational workshops and the congress in Buenos Aires have agreed to make their presentations available to the ISFG members. These presentations can be downloaded as PDF files from the new education page in the "Members Area".
 
Please activate your personal account to get access to this page. Here you find instructions about the activation procedure.
Posted 5 months and 10 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 4 months and 18 days ago)

Online payment of membership fees

 
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Secure payment site

You can now pay your annual membership fee online by credit card (MasterCard and VISA). A secure link to a bank website has been added to your personal profile. Using a simple "one click" button, you reach the secure payment site. After the payment, you will receive a confirmation of your payment by email, as well as a PDF document with a receipt and all payment details. To use this service, you must activate your personal profile.
Posted 5 months and 20 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 5 months and 11 days ago)

First Impact Factor for FSI Genetics

 
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The first official impact factor has been calculated for FSI: Genetics by Thomson Reuters. The impact factor of 1.347 has been published in a re-release of the Journal Citation Report at the end of September. In addition, all publications beginning with Vol. 1, 2007 are fully searchable in NCBI PubMed.
 
This will enhance the public awareness about the articles which have been published up to now in the journal, and will further stimulate the interest of colleagues to submit their manuscripts to FSI: Genetics.
Posted 7 months and 5 days ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 3 months and 13 days ago)

Direct access to FSI: Genetics online for ISFG members

 
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All ISFG members have now a direct and unrestricted link from the ISFG website to the journal FSI: Genetics. Members who have not yet registered for getting access to our website have to activate their personal profile on the ISFG website to use this service. Here you find instructions about the activation procedure.
 
Registered ISFG members can use the FSI:Genetics link on the page Journal Access in the Members' Area.
Posted 1 year and 1 month ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

ISFG members: please activate your account!

 
All members are kindly asked to activate their personal account on the ISFG website to improve the communication, and to make sure that your personal copy of FSI:Genetics will reach you. A step-by-step instruction has been prepared to facilitate this simple procedure. ­ Información español ­ Informação portugués. ­ Deutsche Information
Posted 1 year and 4 months ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

ANZFSS Meeting 2010 in Sydney

 
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The Australian & New Zealand Forensic Science Society holds an International Symposium every two years. The meeting and symposia cover the major areas of forensic science: arson, biology, crime scene, disasters, documents, drug-associated crime, explosions, firearms, fingerprints, homicide, odontology, pathology, toxicology and other disciplines related to both medicine and the law. The next edition will be held in Sydney, Australia, September 5-10, 2010.
Posted 1 year and 8 months ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

Use of ISFG logo on private websites

 
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The executive board has published guidelines for the ISFG members to comply with the statutes of the ISFG. In particular, the use of the ISFG logo and the reference to the ISFG membership on a commercial website, and to the participation in proficiency testing exercises organized by one of the ISFG working groups has been addressed.
Posted 1 year and 11 months ago by Mechthild Prinz (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

FSI Genetics launch celebration

 
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During the 22nd ISFG Congress in Copenhagen, the successful launch of the new journal FSI Genetics was celebrated at a reception organized by the journal publisher Elsevier for the members of the editorial board as well as numerous journal reviewers who were present at the congress.
Posted 2 years and 1 month ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

Welcome and Farewell

 
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Following the elections during the General Assembly in August 2007, the executive committee of the ISFG welcomes Leonor Gusmao as a new member. She will serve as treasurer, taking over from Niels Morling, our new ISFG president. At the same time, the board bids farewell to Angel Carracedo, who is retiring from the board after having served for 16 years.
Posted 2 years and 2 months ago by Peter M. Schneider (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)

Website design

 
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The official website of the ISFG has been completely redesigned. Following an extensive testing period, the new website has been transferred on December 23rd, 2007 to the server to replace the old ISFG web design which has been active since 2001.
Posted 2 years and 7 months ago by Sascha Willuweit (Last modified 6 months and 4 days ago)