English Speaking Working Group
Topics: Board | Meetings | Relationship Testing Workshop | Publications
2021 Virtual Scientific meeting, 20th October
ESWG has a tradition to organize scientific meetings in the years between the ISFG meetings. Due to the pandemic, our planned scientific meeting for 2020 in Norway was unfortunately cancelled. We are now glad to inform that we have decided to have a virtual scientific meeting and member meeting this year, 20th October! Please go to ESWG 2021 for more information.Summary of the ESWG 2019 member meeting
In connection to the ISFG conference in Prague, Czech Republic (September, 2019) the ESWG member meeting was held. Approximately 40 members were present at the meeting. In brief, the board was re-elected for another two years (Andreas Tillmar as the chairman, Denise Syndercombe Court as the secretary and Bo Thisted Simonsen as the treasurer). Daniel Kling presented a summary of this year's (2019) ESWG proficiency testing workshop. Daniel and colleagues will also organize the workshop 2020 (more information will come in the spring). Marguerethe Rødhammer Stenersen, Oslo, Norway presented a proposal for the 2020 ESWG scientific meeting. The board and the members present at the meeting agreed that the 2020 meeting should be hosted by Margurethe and colleagues.Relationship Testing Workshop
For a long period of time, proficiency testing has yearly been organized within the ESWG with a special focus on relationship testing (wet testing and paper challenges). The results of the 2020 proficiency test have been made available as an online video presentation that can be viewed here: https://familias.name/ESWG/presentation_eswg_2020.mp4Membership of the ESWG
Membership of the English Speaking Working Group (ESWG) is open to all English speaking members of the ISFG and may be obtained by application to the secretary of the group. There will be no membership fee in addition to that payable to the ISFG.Aims of the English Speaking Working Group are
- the exchange of experience, quality control and stimulation of cooperation between the members;
- making available scientific knowledge and findings in the field of interest;
- organisation of scientific meetings – but such meetings will be held only after consultation with the ISFG.
History of the ESWG
Board
Chairman
Andreas Tillmar
National Board of Forensic Medicine
Dept.of Forensic Genetics
Artilleriegatan 12
58758 Linköping
Sweden
Phone +46 104834143
Fax +46 104834199
andreas.tillmar@rmv.se
Dept.of Forensic Genetics
Artilleriegatan 12
58758 Linköping
Sweden
Fax +46 104834199
Secretary
Dr. Denise Syndercombe Court
Department of Forensic and Analytical Science
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building
150 Stamford Street
Waterloo
SE1 9NH London
United Kingdom
Phone +44 20 7848 4155
Fax +44 20 7848 4129
denise.syndercombe-court@kcl.ac.uk
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building
150 Stamford Street
Waterloo
SE1 9NH London
United Kingdom
Fax +44 20 7848 4129
Treasurer
Dr. Bo Thisted Simonsen
Section of Forensic Genetics
Frederik V's Vej 11
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone +45 35326110
Fax +45 35326270
bo.simonsen@sund.ku.dk
Frederik V's Vej 11
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Fax +45 35326270
Publications of the Group
- Syndercombe Court D, Lincoln P. A review of the 1991: 1994 Paternity Testing Workshops of the English-Speaking Working Group. In: Carracedo A, Brinkmann, Bär W (eds) Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics 6. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp. 683-5.
- Bjerre A, Syndercombe Court D, Lincoln P, Morling N. A report of the 1995 and 1996 Paternity Testing Workshops of the English Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics. Forensic Sci Int 1997; 90: 41-55.
- Hallenberg C, Morling N. A report of the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Paternity Testing Workshops of the English Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. Forensic Sci Int 2001; 116: 23-33.
- Hallenberg C, Morling N. A report of the 2000 and 2001 Paternity Testing Workshops of the English Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. Forensic Sci Int 2002; 129: 43-50.
- Thomsen AR, Hallenberg C, Simonsen BT, Langkjær RB, Morling N. A report of the 2002-2008 Paternity Testing Workshops of the English Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. FSI: Genetics 2009,3: 214-21.
- Poulsen L, Friis SL, Hallenberg C, Simonsen BT, Morling N. A report of the 2009–2011 Paternity and Relationship Testing Workshops of the English Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. Forensic Science International: Genetics 2014; 9: e1-2.