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["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"Fantastic! Great summary, well presented."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","Student"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","how to analyze mixed samples technically and statistically."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience","The review process","This workshop should get more time. 1.5 hours was very short given the broad experience of John Butler."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","challenging","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","how to reasonably argue to the questioned comments from reviewers?","benefit a lot from the workshop, and hope get chance again. Thanks."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Role of NGS in forensic genetics"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Private lab","> 10 years work experience","Minimum requirements for submission of articles","Discussion on guidelines for reviewers"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","More detailed process of working on the article","Very interesting and useful workshop. \nIt is desirable to have the presentation before the workshop\n"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Other","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience","mRNA analysis and forensic implications.","It was an interesting and useful topic and the speaker was very clear."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Private lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","Writing and reviewing papers was an excellent presentation, however was more a lecture than workshop.\n\nJohn Butler's presentation contained both helpful tips and practice advise and I would like to see it as a regular workshop or presentation. ","This workshop was very helpful and I have learnt some tips to assist me in scientific reading and writing.  "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Advanced skills of writing high quality papers are popular for young forensic researchers.","The topics  of ISFG 2013 Workshops are important and popular for me. However, I could not attend most of the workshops because I could not afford them. They are expensive for me who is currently a young reseacher and has no enough financial support. Thank you for your work."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","Student"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Writing And Reviewing Papers'","No.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience",null,"Very good workshop! It's helpful for me."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","Student"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","(Please choose)"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","In the future I would be interested in some practical training in how best to use new generation sequencing technology.","I really enjoyed the workshop, it was great to see some practical examples. I would like to get more involved in the wildlife community in Australia and will be actively doing something about that soon."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","latest developments in the field"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Wildlife'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","No.","too complex","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","This was meant to be a workshop, but in reality it was just a series of lectures. Most of the people in the room appeared to have no experience working with mtDNA or y-chromosome so it really should have been much more practically focussed with actual exercises for the participants walking them through the process of obtaining data, interpreting data, undertaking analysis and reporting. Walther Parson touched on this briefly with some walk-throughs of haplogrouping sequences, but what is really needed are hands-on exercises that each attendee can do themselves on a laptop or by hand on paper. \n\nIn future PLEASE ensure that the people running these workshops understand that people dont want to hear another day of conference talks, they want to learn practical skills as the name 'workshop' implies. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","More demonstrations on the use of softwares in the analysis of lineage markers for casework purposes."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","Student"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","No.","challenging","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"Very nice workshop with a different approche than in the ordinary lectures, very good!!"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","Lineage markers including 'minihaps'","We had very constructive feedback."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"Overall, the level and quality of the workshop was very good, and the speakers covered the topic very well. \nThe section on the Y chr should be improved as some of the talks consisted in reading the manual of the Y database.\n"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience","it would be helpful to discuss and work through a real case example from searching in a database to drawing the conclusion"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Statistical interpretation. And how to do them. Give hands-on practice/demos of how to calculate HPD/ Laplace/ Brenners K / Clopper Pearson etc. We read about all these methods in the literature, but actually applying them is beyond the reach of most non-mathematicians. Practice/information on how to set up these methods in your own lab would be immensely valuable. ","I think it would be more useful to a wider range of participants if Lineage Markers was separated into mtDNA and Y (as very few people present worked on both), or there was more focus on the statistical interpretation of haploid markers, rather than how to use EMPOP/YHRD. Statistical interpretation is a highly debated topic, yet the workshop did not really cover the various methods in detail. \nAnd having it the morning after the conference dinner was just cruel. Everyone's hangovers/lethargy prevented robust discussion due to exhaustion!!!!"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"Really liked the mt DNA part. Y-chromosome section could have been organised better."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","would like to hear from Sasha and Lutz again when the newer multiplexes get going around the world, a really valuable resource which we should not take for granted\n\nwould like to hear more about mtDNA whole genome typing when we have done more of it collectively"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience",null,"The information was great and delivered by fantastic experienced presenters. As a caseworker who works mainly with STR's in cold case investigations I attended the workshops to gain a better understanding of the possibilities for cold cases and make contacts with the leaders in this field in case I needed their guidance in the future. thanks"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience",null,"Could you provide training materials of 'Lineage Markers' on the website? Thank you.   <m41052@mjib.gov.tw>"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Lineage Markers'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience",null,"Bad timing is last day or day afther. Otherwise it is very useful. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","More NGS and validation"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","too simple","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Other","< 10 years work experience","Bioinformatics of forensic STR typing"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","challenging","Private lab","< 10 years work experience","New differential extraction techniques","This workshop was too fast and hard to follow. A summery paper would have been useful."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","Practical information on current and future developments for NGS with a focus on potentially usable routine applications.  ","The quality of the workshop was subpar in comparison to what you expect from an ISFG workshop.  The topic was Genomic Technologies and an emphasis on NGS was implied.  Hence, a presentation on MALDI-TOF and SNaPshot was not only out of topic but completely outdated.  Most of the presentations were disappointing at the exception of two."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"I like the first 1-2 talks about NGS technologies.  These provided new information.\n\nThe following talks did not really fit into the topic and were not useful or new to me."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","challenging","Other","> 10 years work experience","other technologies currently being developed\nfuture vision in 5-10 years","GWA session was hard to follow but it is of course a necessary foundation"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"good overview and content in general, but presentations were quite poor, selection of speakers not adequate for a workshop; experienced speakers and experts are preferrable; students as speakers are not asked many questions probably because the audience does not want to challenge them; as a result no discussion or workshop feeling came up at all"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'",null,"adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","much more on new generation sequencing and bioinformatics","some parts were really good (for example the overview given of new technology) , but there was too much content on existing (quite old) technology and not much on current new things."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","too complex","Public lab/casework and research","Student",null,"The issue with this workshop is that the introductory part was not given properly (mostly because the english of the person giving this part was not good). The techniques were not appropriately explained, which made following the applications of the techniques complicated."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","(Please choose)",null,"The information was great and delivered by fantastic experienced presenters. As a caseworker who works mainly with STR's in cold case investigations I attended the workshops to gain a better understanding of the possibilities for cold cases and make contacts with the leaders in this field in case I needed their guidance in the future. thanks"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","No.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience",null,"It was good to catch up on where the science is at now and into the near future."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"I thought that some of the content covered in this workshop was becoming out-dated (e.g. SNaPshot) given the newer technologies now available (e.g. massively parallel sequencing). I would have liked a little bit more information about NGS and forensic biology.\n\nAll presenters were great"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","se other answers I do not want to repeat myself","A nice workshop trying to give a good view about the state of the art. Also here, as in the Phenotypic trate, workshop I would have liked to have had a still broader wiev, given by more labs, not only from two closely collaborating labs.\n\nMay be it is just too difficult to organize. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Genomic Technologies'",null,"too simple","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience",null,"very bad organised, wasted money"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","I find that collaberation between different disciplines Ã­s a cornerstone in DVI (police, odontology, pathology.......). Why not let the workshop exemplify the work flow in a DVI-operation from a biologists point of view?","There was enough time and a good climate for discussions. Questions were raised both from students and more experienced delegates. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","too simple","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","DVI - expert level -(with software analysis of example data),  "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","a specific case scenario - from beginning to end","Workshop participants should have received a booklet containing all presentations so that it is easier to take notes.\nI did not learn anything new but it was a good summary, the presentations were interesting and there was some interaction between participants."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","adequate","Other","Student","For future workshops and a recent graduate trying to enter the forensic biology field, perhaps topics on ongoing or new areas of research that need students or research assistants and provide names of contacts would be useful.","The course was extremely rewarding and the presenters were extremely informative and engaging."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","Next generation sequencing technologies","In the DVI workshop, topics on the use and applicability of different softwares for making comparison/matches should be discussed especially for me who do not have experience in using such softwares. Also, some of the ethical and legal issues that maybe encountered during mass disaster identification.   "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DVI'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","Perhaps a brief discussion on the statistical methods/software available for DNA identification.","I thought the workshop was thorough and well presented. More handouts of presentations would have been useful. Perhaps some discussion from the audience as to their experiences with mock and real DVI events."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","challenging","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Other","Student"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"Workshop was well presented"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Other","< 10 years work experience","More on the statistical methods and justifications for identifying the SNPs for phenotypic markers. How reliable are the results etc."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","No.","too complex","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","This was meant to be a workshop, but in reality it was just a series of lectures. Most of the people in the room appeared to have no experience working with phenotype markers so it really should have been much more practically focussed with actual exercises for the participants walking them through the process of obtaining data, interpreting data, undertaking analysis and reporting. What is really needed are hands-on exercises that each attendee can do themselves on a laptop or by hand on paper. \n\nIn future PLEASE ensure that the people running these workshops understand that people don't want to hear another day of conference talks and theoretical meanderings, they want to learn practical skills as the name 'workshop' implies. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","DNA based prediction for complex appearence trait in forensic context, such as body height and facial shape.\n","A lot of people, that was great!"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","I thought the selection of workshops available was very good, but it's a pity the proposed workshop on ethics was cancelled; I would like to see that at a future conference.","Very interesting workshop. My only suggestion for improvement would be to provide each participant with a copy of the lecture slides; there was too much information for effective note-taking from scratch."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"This was not a workshop! It was a serious of lectures, there was no interaction - I was very disappointed!\nWorkshop participants should have received a booklet containing all presentations."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Private lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"A summery paper would have been useful."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Format for reporting of DNA phenotype results in casework."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Private lab","> 10 years work experience","Continue with phenotyping."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","Potential of application of DNA phenotyping in routine caswork.\nOverview of ethical concerns.\nLegal requirements in different countries.\n"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"The topic(s) were 'repeated' in the conference, so it was to much overlap."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","Further development of the areas. Consideration of the mathematical aspects of the evaluation of the results","Very interesting workshop. \nTo further improve it is highly desirable to provide the participants with materials of all the presentations, and it is better to do it in advance"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","I would like to hear from a wider range of experts."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","see other answers I do not want to repeat myself","I am a bit worried about that everything presented come from only one research group and it's collaborators. I would have liked a more broad approach, although Manfred and collaborators were onest to also provide some criticism and pitfalls using phenotypic markers..  "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","Ethics discussions \nQuality Standars and Validations\nForensic Microbiology","The workshops could be complemented by an experimental assay."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","Continuing with the latest research on DNA Phenotyping","Very Interesting topic but still in very early stages for use in court cases."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience",null,"The information was great and delivered by fantastic experienced presenters. As a caseworker who works mainly with STR's in cold case investigations I attended the workshops to gain a better understanding of the possibilities for cold cases and make contacts with the leaders in this field in case I needed their guidance in the future. thanks"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","< 10 years work experience","Further advances in the same area."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Phenotyping'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","I think the information presented was thorough. ","Pre-workshop presentation handouts would have been useful for preparation. Some presentations I found were too technical and dense for those who are only peripherally aware of the field ie a more simple introductory approach would have benefitted me. Maybe offer introductory and advanced workshops."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","Student","Continuous model of mixture interpretation","I think although the workshop is basic, I think it should still include discussion on the continuous model for mixture interpretation. Since current technologies allow for typing of very complex mixtures at low template amounts, it is crucial that labs start to shift towards using the continuous model. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","I would like to know present situation of actual DNA testing for the court.\n\n Case work study will be the most attractive topic for me.","Lecture by P Gill was very excellent for me."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","relatives' cases","Very useful workshop.\nIt is desirable to have all the presentations before the workshop in advance to have time to work them out"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","too simple","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"i thought that the basic workshop was going to go into the basics of the new stats methods (i.e. the continuous methods).  I swapped to the advanced workshop and got a lot out of that one.\n"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","too simple","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Mixture Analysis and Interpretation"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","I will attend the Advanced workshop that was also held in Melbourne. I wanted to attend the advanced this time, but first wanted to get the Basic one done. Glad I decided that, since the basic one was excellent and filled in some of the gaps for me. ","This is an excellent workshop that I will strongly recommend to anyone working in the field. The content and quality of the speakers was superb! \n\nPS: the 'other' in question 2 means: I run a private company that does consultation in forensic DNA evidence. My research lab is not forensic based at the moment. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Other","< 10 years work experience","Will join the advanced course in the future."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Other","Other",null,"The workshop was very well done.  The instructors were world class thought leaders and presented the material in the basic class accurately and understandably."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","For those of us dealing with casework but with minimal experience in the witness box, it would be useful to have some expert witness training/case-studies from more experienced DNA forensic experts. Especially when presenting data from a relatively new method. ","I enjoyed the workshop and hope to put the methodology learned into practice if/when the mixture scenario comes up in my casework. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","No.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience",null,"Good workshop! "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Basic'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience","more excercises and case studies","The workshop was ideal to get a basic knowledge about statistics and DNA interpretation. The presentations were great as well as the lecture notes."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience",null,"Disappointed that lunch wasn't included - as this would usually facilitate conversations with others participating in the conference."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience","Discussion of a validation of a semi-continuous model such as LRmix, LabRetriever etc."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","Latest advanced dna interpretation"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience","1. Hands on workshop using software (STRMix for example) to perform mixture interpretation.\n\n2. Working on a set of mock case studies before coming to the training and spending some time to review results and discuss various approaches in the room,."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Other","< 10 years work experience","Matching rules : from how many loci/what LR can we be certain of a match ?\nHow to create a verbal and/or numerical scale ?"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Real examples from the 'new' kits (NGM/ESX/ESSplex) analysed on 'new' instruments (3500). How to decide what a good result looks like, that can be used in calculations and which samples are of  too low quality. This has been difficult to define in praxis."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","< 10 years work experience","More casework examples to demonstrate how the topics would work in a practical setting.","The speakers were all very engaging and approachable."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","too complex","Academic lab","Student","Validation of software for low template DNA analysis\nCurrent forensic casework in Europe and USA"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","interpretation of DNA typing results by 3500","It is a very helpful workshop. Especially, some calculation activities by Jo-Anne Bright was great to understand the basic principle of STRmix. I also like Mike's talk. Thank you so much. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","casework/court examples were good from Peter Gill. could have been tightened up a bit ...some repetition. Less emphasis on computer programs and more on the theory of calcs and the advantages and disadvantages would be good","although it was obviously sensible to do the two workshops in tandem i would have liked to do the basic as a refresher followed by the advanced. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'DNA Interpretation - Advanced'","Yes.","adequate","Other","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'",null,"too simple","Other","< 10 years work experience",null,"The workshop was less well organized compared to the other workshops I attended."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Private lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"A summery paper would have been useful."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","too simple","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","Same topic but improved content matching the title","1) The title was saying 'Implementation of messenger RNA body fluid testing in forensic case work', which was not covered by the actual content of the workshop. e.g. It makes no practical use in repeating ISO 17025 requirements from the guideline and then missing to give the examples how to implement the methods. I expected a workshop like J. Butlers validation workshop.\n2) The presentations were promised to provide later, which was not the case until now."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","< 10 years work experience","Show raw data and more examples of expected or encountered profiles in the analysis of mRNA for body fluid identification."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience",null,"Perhaps facilitate the workshops so more discussion can take place. The set up of the room we were in for this workshop felt rather formal and was not conducive to discussion. It felt like just another conference presentation. Perhaps groups around tables or similar instead? "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","This area is and will always be an important part of our work as biologists. I would like to see more on mRNA testing and perhaps practical advice and casework examples of how this application is being used in casework.","Good workshop very helpful, but I'd like to see more casework and application focus."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",{"$error":"#NAME?"},"I think it a Body fluid workshop or RNA profiling workshop is an excellent topic, new to many forensic scientists. Thus introducing the subject and discussing interpretation issues is very important and well timed. The Melbourne workshop was lecture-like. Discussion was a bit low. \nA next workshop could involve more hands-on challenges: provide profiles to participants and provoke them to discuss interpretation issues."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Body Fluids'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience",null,"too much defending their own results insted to focus on how to apply and participate in further investigations"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","challenging","Private lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"This was not a workshop! It was a serious of lectures, there was no interaction - I was very disappointed!\nWorkshop participants should have received a booklet containing all presentations."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","No.","too complex","Academic lab","> 10 years work experience","This was meant to be a workshop, but in reality it was just a series of lectures. Most of the people in the room appeared to have no experience working with phenotype markers so it really should have been much more practically focussed with actual exercises for the participants walking them through the process of obtaining data, interpreting data, undertaking analysis and reporting. What is really needed are hands-on exercises that each attendee can do themselves on a laptop or by hand on paper. \n\nIn future PLEASE ensure that the people running these workshops understand that people don't want to hear another day of conference talks and theoretical meanderings, they want to learn practical skills as the name 'workshop' implies. "]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","No.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience",null,"There wasn't enough time for all the proposed topics/talks.\n\nThe workup of the ancestry data would have been better to perform in person (on a laptop) versus watching a presentation of the workflow.  Less people and more hands on would have been good."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","> 10 years work experience","A good workshop that deserves to be included, but more application driven approach would be helpful.","More focus on casework examples would be helpful."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","adequate","Academic lab","< 10 years work experience",null,"Presenters were well prepared and thorough. I would have liked a little bit more discussion on the validation side and perhaps the ethics of ancestry analysis, but understand that the workshop was only half a day. \n\nThe indepth coverage of data analysis methods was helpful and I was therefore glad that time was spent going through this topic with participants.\n"]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","adequate","Public lab/casework and research","> 10 years work experience","1) Quality assurance of next gen seq data to be used in forensic investiagtions,\n\n\n\n2) ethical and legal issues in getting too much info such as ancestry and physical traits ","Unfortunately too much of this workshop was focused on the results and data analaysis of previous testing of a number of markers by eight selected laboratories. Still i found the general overview of the present state of the art intersting and worth listening to."]
["ISFG 2013 Workshop 'Ancestry'","Yes.","challenging","Public lab/casework","(Please choose)","I think the information presented was thorough. ","Pre-workshop presentation handouts would have been useful. Presentations a bit too technical and dense for my relatively low level of knowledge. Perhaps offer introductory and advanced workshops in the future."]