Progress in Forensic Genetics 18

The 28th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) took place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. It was the first ISFG Congress held in the region of the previous Czechoslovakia and experienced a record number of attendees. Stick-on footsteps led 1018 participants from the Vyšehrad metro station to the Prague Congress Centre. These proceedings, which have been published in Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series Volume 7, contain more than 330 articles describing work presented at the conference – another ISFG record!

The Congress was planned and organized by the ISFG Board and Scientific Committee (Walther Parson, Peter M. Schneider, John M. Butler, Mechthild Prinz, and Leonor Gusmão) in cooperation with the Local Organizing Committee (Andrea Cignová, Jiří Drábek, Veronika Gazdová, Marie Korabečná, Jana Matoušková, Martina Novotná, Tomáš Pexa, Halina Šimková, Petra Škapová, Kateřina Štaffová, Zuzana Štaffová, and Pavel Tomek), and the excellent professional conference planners (Karolína Tylšová, Soňa Horáčková, and their team from C-IN).

There were 14 pre-congress workshops involving 474 participants