Congress Award recipients

M. Boullón-Cassau et al., Institute of Forensic Sciences, USC, Santiago De Compostela, Spain

Exploring legal age estimation using DNA methylation

Santiago de Compostela - 2024

Best oral presentation

C. McDonald et al., Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Real-time and STR data in one reaction: a means to optimise PCR

Santiago de Compostela - 2024

Best poster presentation

R. Turiello et al., University of Virginia, USA

A novel rotationally-driven microfluidic approach for forensic epigenetic sample preparation for human chronological age determination

Washington DC - 2022

Best oral presentation

N. Sheth et al., Rutgers University, USA

A forensically relevant unsupervised learning approach that accurately clusters single- cell electropherograms

Washington DC - 2022

Best poster presentation

S. Claerhout et al., KU Leuven, Forensic Biomedical Sciences, Belgium

CSY? A panel-based MPS approach including 6,917 Y-Chromosome polymorphisms

Prague - 2019

Best oral presentation

P. Kanokwongnuwut, et al., Flinders University, College of Science and Engineering, Adelaide, Australia

Detection of cellular material within handprints

Prague - 2019

Best poster presentation

M. Diepenbroek et al., Dept. of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

First genetic evidence for Jewish holocaust victims in Sobibor, Poland, by phylogeographic analyses

Seoul - 2017

Best oral presentation

Yu-Chih Lin et al., National Chung Hsing University and Taichung City Government Police Department, Taiwan

Novel identification of biofluids using a multiplex methylation sensitive restriction enzyme PCR system

Seoul - 2017

Best poster presentation

A. Vidaki, et al., King’s College, London, United Kingdom

DNA methylation-based age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing

Kraków - 2015

Best oral presentation

A. M. Haines et al., School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Finding DNA: using fluorescent in situ detection

Kraków - 2015

Best poster presentation

S. Walsh et al., Dept. of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Predicting skin colour from DNA using a model-based approach

Melbourne - 2013

Best oral presentation

S. Leake et al., Institut de Police Scientifique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Human identification through analysis of the salivary microbiome

Melbourne - 2013

Best poster presentation

D. Hall et al., University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland

DIP-STR markers: a new tool for the analysis of unbalanced mixtures of DNA from two individuals.

Vienna - 2011

Best oral presentation

C. Phillips et al., Genomics Medicine Group, CIBERER, and Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Exploring 1000 Genomes Data for Forensic Purposes using the Engines SNP Browser

Vienna - 2011

Best poster presentation

A. Freire-Aradas et al., Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

A New SNP Assay for Human Identification of Highly Degraded DNA

Buenos Aires - 2009

Best oral presentation

P. Vallone et al., U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland

Rapid Amplification of Commercial STR Typing Kits

Buenos Aires - 2009

Best poster presentation

F. Pitterl et al., 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 oral presentation

M.J. Park et al., 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

Copenhagen - 2007

Best poster presentation

L. Prieto et al., GEP-ISFG

Analysis of mtDNA mixtures from different fluids: an inter-laboratory study

Ponta Delgada - 2005

Best oral presentation

C. Murray et al., 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

Ponta Delgada - 2005

Best poster presentation

M. Nilsson et al., Dept. of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Sequence analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome

Arcachon - 2003

Best oral presentation

C. Keyser-Tracqui et al., Ludes. Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Strasbourg, France

SNP analysis of a 2000-year-old Xiongnu population from Mongolia (peri-Baïkal area)

Arcachon - 2003

Best poster presentation

M. Brion et al., Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, 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 oral presentation

C. Alves et al., IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal

Multiplex STR genotping: comparison study, population data and new sequence information.

Münster - 2001

Best poster presentation