Presentation Awards

The recipients for the awards for the best oral presentation and the best poster presentation are selected during the biannual ISFG congress by a committee which is composed of senior scientists attending the congress as well as of the members of the executive board. The award ceremony is held during the closing session of the congress.

These are the recipients of the awards for the best oral and poster presentations at the ISFG congresses:

ISFG Congress	Year	Award winner	Title
Buenos Aires	2009	Best oral presentation: Ana Freire-Aradas, Manuel Fondevila, Christopher Phillips, Peter Gill, Lourdes Prieto, Ángel Carracedo, María Victoria Lareu. Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Centre for Forensic Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom; IUICP, DNA Laboratory, Comisaría General de Policía Científica, Madrid, Spain	A New SNP Assay for Human Identification of Highly Degraded DNA.
Buenos Aires	2009	Best poster presentation: Peter Vallone, Carolyn Hill, Daniele Podini, John Butler: U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland; The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.	Rapid Amplification of Commercial STR Typing Kits
Copenhagen	2007	Best oral presentation: Florian Pitterl, Herbert Oberacher, Gabriela Huber, Harald Niederstätter, Walther Parson. Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria	Simultaneous detection of length and nucleotide variability in STRs by High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry.
Copenhagen	2007	Best poster presentation: Myung Jin Park, Hwan Young Lee, Na Young Kim, Soong Deok Lee, Woo Ick Yang, Sang-Ho Cho, Kyoung- JinShin. Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea	Genetic characteristics of 22 Y-STRs in Koreans: Atypical alleles, deletions in the DYS385 flanking region, and null alleles associated with AZFc microdeletions
Ponta Delgada	2005	Best oral presentation: Montesino M, Salas A, Crespillo M, Albarrán C, Alonso A, Alvarez-Iglesias V, Cano JA, Carvalho M, Corach D, Cruz C, Di Lonardo, Espinheira R, Farfán MJ, Filippini S, Garcia-Hirschfeld J, Hernández A, Lima G, López-Cubría CM, López-Soto M, Pagano S, Paredes M, Pinheiro MF, Sala A, Sóñora S, Sumita DR, Vide MC, Whittle MR, Zurita A, Lourdes Prieto Solla. GEP-ISFG.	Analysis of mtDNA mixtures from different fluids: an inter-laboratory study.
Ponta Delgada	2005	Best poster presentation: Caroline Murray, McAlister C, Elliott K. Forensic Science Service, Birmingham, UK.	Use of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation and Laser Capture Microdissection to isolate male non-sperm cells in cases of sexual assault.
Arcachon	2003	Best oral presentation: M. Nilsson, U. Gyllensten, M. Allen. Dept. of Forensic Genetics, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.	Sequence analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome.
Arcachon	2003	Best poster presentation: C. Keyser-Tracqui, P. Blandin, E. Petkovski, F.X. Ricaut, E. Crubézy and B. Ludes. Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Strasbourg, France.	SNP analysis of a 2000-year-old Xiongnu population from Mongolia (peri-Baïkal area).
Münster	2001	Best oral presentation: M. Brion, B. Quintans, A. Gonzalez-Neira, M. Zarrabeitia, A. Salas, J. Riancho, M.V. Lareu, P. Sanchez-Velasco, A. Carracedo. Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela; Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander; Dept. of Medicine, Hospital U.M. Valdecilla, Santander, Spain.	Microgeographic patterns of highly informative Y-chromsome haplotypes (using biallelic markers and STRs) in Galicia (NW Spain): foresnic and anthropological implications.
Münster	2001	Best poster presentation: C. Alves, L. Gusmao, L. Pereira, A. Amorim. IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal.	Multiplex STR genotping: comparison study, population data and new sequence information.