Progress in Forensic Genetics 16

The 26th Congress of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG) returned to Europe to the historical town of Krakow, the cultural capital of Poland. Founded in 1364 Jagiellonian University, which hosted the Congress, is one of the oldest universities in the world. Its modern Auditorium Maximum conference venue could easily accommodate over 700 attendees and exhibitors as well as the 10 preceding workshops and the meeting of the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking ISFG working group (GHEP). The Congress president Dr. Tomasz Kupiec represented the second institution responsible for the organisation of this event, the Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow.

Continuing a valuable tradition of the ISFG congresses, we here present the congress proceedings consisting of two page extended abstracts for work presented during the 26th meeting. This supplementary edition of FSI: Genetics has been evaluated and accepted for publication by the President of the ISFG, Professor Mechthild Prinz and the local Congress organizers, Dr. Tomasz Kupiec and Dr. Wojciech Branicki.

The Congress workshops were attended by as many as 553 participants and covered various important forensic genetics topics