Interpreting Y-STR results in challenging casework and presenting such data in court

Join us for a talk by Prof. Dr. Lutz Roewer (Charité Berlin) & Prof. Franz Neuhuber (Institute of Legal Medicine, Salzburg) on using Y-STRs for challenging casework samples.

Key topics to be covered in this 1 hour webinar:

  • What cases are appropriate for Y-STR analysis?
  • How to interpret Y-STR results
  • How to present Y-STR data in court
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

 


About the presenters

Prof. Dr. Lutz Roewer
Director of the Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine
Charité-University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Lutz Roewer has worked as a forensic expert since 1987. He is specialised in the field of Y-Chromosome genetics and its forensic, genealogical and anthropological applications. He is currently curator of the Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database (YHRD).

Dr. Roewer is a member of the International Society of Forensic Genetics and in 1999 received the ISFG Biennial Award for his work on the forensic application of Y-chromosomal DNA polymorphisms. He is a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science International: Genetics. Since 2014 he is a member of the SWGDAM Y-STR committee.

Dr. Roewer has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, and regularly publishes reviews and chapters in text books.

  
     

Prof. Dr. Franz Neuhuber
Head of Forensic Molecular Biology Department
Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Salzburg, Austria

Prof. Franz Neuhuber has been working as a forensic molecular biologist since 1994. He currently heads the department of forensic molecular biology at the Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Salzburg, Austria.

Prof. Neuhuber is a publicly appointed, certified and sworn expert for forensic molecular biology. The department processes an average of 1,500 cases per year. The lab of Prof. Neuhuber received its ISO 17025 accreditation in 2008 and is one of four laboratories in Austria contracted by the Ministry of the Interior to provide DNA profiles for the Austrian national DNA database.

The Austrian database is one of the most successful DNA databases worldwide with a hit rate of approx. 40%.

 

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