ESWG MEETING 2008 17-21 JUNE 2008 – SINAIA, ROMANIA
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME - ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Wednesday 18 June, morning
08 h 30 09 h 30 Registration
09 h 30 11 h 00 Working session 1
C. Brenner: Workshop on forensic genetic statistics and DNA*VIEW – Sex chromosome and other haplotype analysis problems
11 h 00 11 h 30 Coffee break
11 h 30 13 h 00 Working session 2
C. Brenner: Workshop on forensic genetic statistics and DNA*VIEW – Sex chromosome and other haplotype analysis problems (continued)
13 h 00 14 h 00 Lunch at the Conference Centre
Wednesday 18 June, afternoon
14 h 00 15 h 30 Working session 3
14.00 14.45 A. Thomsen: Report of the Paternity Testing Workshop and discussion
14.45 15.00 D. Gjertson: Calculations and Precautions in Motherless Cases where Mother and Alleged Father are Related
15.00 15.15 J. Henke. Three exclusions from paternity: What does this mean?
15.15 15.30 D. Clark: The use of combined allele frequency databases in South Asian populations
15 h 30 16 h 00 Coffee break
16 h 00 17 h 30 Working session 4
16.00 16.15 L. Barbarii: An-exclusion paternity case with a double genetic incompatibility
16.15 16.30 C. Constantinescu: Exploring the inheritance for paternity cases - Lessons from
16.30 16.45 M. Turcitu: Diagnosis of a human rabies case
16.45 17.00 A. Constantinescu: Grafting outcome by monitoring the hematopoietic chimerism on STR markers – an optimized molecular protocol
17.00 17.15 A.M.Manea: Animal identification using microsatellite markers
17.15 17.30 R. Just: Titanic’s Unknown Child
19 h 00 22 h 00 Dinner at "Trei Brazi" Chalet (near Sinaia)
Thursday 19 June, morning
09 h 00 11 h 00 Working session 5
09.00 09.30 R. Just: Comparison of the mitoSEQr Resequencing Sets to Standard mtDNA Sequencing Protocols
09.30 09.45 C. Hallenberg: Y-chromosome STR haplotypes in males from Greenland
09.45 10.00 R. Weispfenning: A novel real-time pcr strategy for the quantitation of total human and male DNA
10.00 10.15 Y. Prasad: Towards Integrated Workflow Solutions for Forensic Analysis
10.15 10.30 N. Zahra: Development of Internal Amplification Controls (IACs) for DNA profiling – Quality control for PCR
10.30 10.45 R. Jankova-Ajanovska: DNA identification of a victim of a serial murderer
10.45 11.00 C. Winkler (presented by J or L Henke): DNA-polymorphisms used for tracing ancestry can help find distant relatives. A case report
11 h 00 11 h 30 Coffee break
11 h 30 13 h 00 Working session 6
11.30 12.15 N. Morling: SNP typing in forensic genetics
12.15 12.30 D. Syndercombe Court: The value of testing single nucleotide polymorphisms in complex immigration cases
12.30 12.45 H. Geada: X-STRs, Y-STRs and Y-SNPs in Paternity Investigation.
12.45 13.00 D. Ruivo. X-chromosomal STRs study with ARGUS X-8 in a Portuguese population
13 h 00 14 h 00 Lunch at the Conference Centre
Thursday 19 June, afternoon
14 h 00 15 h 30 Working session 7 (poster presentations)
14.00 15.30 D. Gjertson: Discussion of the ISFG: Recommendations on biostatistics in paternity testing – Future directions
15 h 30 16 h 00 Coffee break
16 h 00 17 h 00 Working session 8
16.00 17.00 General assembly of the ESWG
17.00 17 h 30 Final remarks and end of the meeting
19 h 00 22 h 00 Sightseeing Sinaia and dinner at "Taverna Sarbului" (Sinaia)
