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Meetings
Southern Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Fall Meeting
September 19-24, 2010
Hollywood Casino Hotel
Tunica, Mississippi
Association of Forensic Quality Assurance Managers (AFQAM) Annual Meeting
September 7-10, 2010 New Orleans Riverside Hilton
New Orleans, LA
Contact: Zo M. Smith
E-mail: z6849s@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.afqam.org
21st International Symposium on Human Identification
October 11-14, 2010
San Antonio, Texas
Plan to attend the 21st International Symposium on Human Identification, October 11-14, 2010, San Antonio, Texas. This year's meeting will feature a keynote address by Ann Rule, author of more than 30 true crime novels, a talk by Carsten Pusch about DNA testing of King Tutankhamun and the royal family and a panel discussion on issues related to familial searching.
Workshops will include
* Forensic Statistics
* Use of Low Copy Number Testing
* Familial Searching
* Working with Difficult Samples
* Mixture Interpretation (sponsored by NIJ)
Find out more and register online at: www.ishi21.com
TRAININGS
Basic Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Workshop presented by the Specialized Training Unit at the Metropolitan Police Institute of the Miami-Dade Police Department, Doral, Florida.
March 8-12, 2010
December 6-10, 2010
Advanced Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Expert Witness Workshop presented by the Specialized Training Unit at the Metropolitan Police Institute of the Miami-Dade Police Department, Doral, Florida.
May 17-21, 2010
For information contact:
Toby L. Wolson, M.S., F-ABC
Miami-Dade Police Department
Crime Laboratory Bureau
9105 N.W. 25th St.
Doral, FL 33172
Voice: 305-471-3041
Fax: 305-471-2052
E-mail: Twolson@mdpd.com
Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction Annual Training Conference
February 10-12, 2010
San Diego, CA, The Dana on Mission Bay
For updates and information on presentations, workshops, and registration go to the ACSR website.
Leadership Assessment: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
Two-day Forensic Science Manager Workshops
Northeast Regional Forensic Institute, Albany, NY
March 18-19, 2010
February 18-19, 2010
April 1-2, 2010
Sponsored by NERFI and National Institute of Justice. The purpose of this session is to provide leaders with an overview of tools and guidance for assessing and developing employees for supervisory and management positions. The interactive session is targeted to lab directors, supervisors, technical leaders and QA/QC managers.
Topics include talent acquisition and retention, and staff development. Methods used: Group Discussion, case study, brainstorming, role play, readings, review of literature, surveys, integration of ideas and next steps. The session will be highly interactive and focused on topics of interest to session participants. (www.albany.edu/nerfi)
For reservations, contact John Hicks: johnhicks08@aol.com
Space limited to 10 individuals for each workshop
Capillary Electrophoresis & DNA Analysis using Applied Biosystems' 3130XL Genetic Analyzer & Genemapper ID
Northeast Regional Forensic Institute, Albany, NY
January 25-29, 2010
February 8-12, 2010
This five-day course is designed to provide the theoretical and practical background necessary to perform capillary electrophoresis and data analysis. These workshops are being held via NIJ funding and you may attend free-of-charge. Topics include Electrophoretic theory, Genetic Analyzers, Data Analysis, Genemapper theory and use and demonstration of GMID-IDX.
The course will conclude with a multiple-choice exam and issuance of course completion certificates. (www.albany.edu/nerfi)
For more information, please contact Jamie L. Belrose, M.S.: jamie.belrose@gmail.com
Enrollment is limited to 6 individuals per session
Forensic Management Academy
April 11 - April 16, 2010
Morgantown, WV
Contemporary business practices can improve the operation of your laboratory, and this week-long training can teach you how to improve your lab's efficiency and your staff's capabilities. The instructors use a mix of interactive projects, case studies, and lecture.
Who should attend: Forensic laboratory managers, law enforcement executives, and aspiring forensic service providers who want to learn better business practices. Attendance is limited to 35 people.
Topics: Leadership, succession planning, team building, business skills, conflict resolution, cost benefit analysis, budgeting, motivation, strategy, and performance and project management.
For more information or to apply, contact Lisa Poling at 304-293-7961 or visit www.be.wvu.edu/execed/fmgmt.htm
McCrone Research Institue
Our courses, usually one-week in length, are designed to provide practicing scientists with training in critical applied microscopy. Some courses provide an overview and emphasize the proper use of the microscope and its accessories; others are more specific. Each course has lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory practice so that students learn each technique by hearing about it, watching it being done, and then doing it. Students learn powerful and effective methods for studying, characterizing, and identifying materials of all kinds, and for rapidly solving research, production, and quality control problems.
Students are welcome to bring with them questions and samples pertaining to their particular area of interest.
McCrone Course Calendar
College of Microscopy
Located in Westmont, Illinois, the College of Microscopy is an institution for special instruction and specialized education, whose goal is to advance the knowledge and understanding of light and electron microscopy for materials analysis. It is dedicated to quality hands-on teaching of micro-analytical principles, techniques and applications, using state-of the-art light and electron microscopes and accessories. One of the advantages of attending a course at the College of Microscopy is that our courses are taught primarily by experienced senior staff scientists from McCrone Associates, Inc.
who solve microanalytical problems on a daily basis. That's why it's true when we say, "Learn From Experience ... Learn From The Experts."
Visit the College of Microscopy Online Course Calender
Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University, in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice, will be holding the 2010 Spring Continuing Education for Forensic Professionals Program
March 8th-13th, 2010 in Fort Worth Texas.
The program offers a variety of free training opportunities
in many forensic and investigative disciplines. The training is offered
free to state and local law enforcement, forensic scientists, and
related professionals. Registration will begin Monday, January 25th at
10:00 am EST. For more information and to register please visit our
website at http://fsi.research.wvu.edu.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services
The Training and Records Testimony Team (TRTT) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division provides training and expert witness testimony in the science of fingerprints, including all the proper preparation/ processing of friction ridge skin, and criminal history report data to agencies with authorized access to the CJIS systems. The TRTT offers a variety of classes which are conducted at the FBI/CJIS Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In addition, some of our courses are available via Video Teleconferencing (VTC). Agencies are encouraged to send their employees to the FBI/CJIS Division to obtain fingerprint and criminal history training from the TRTT. The internal classes are scheduled on a quarterly basis and advertised on the FBI's Internet site at http://www.fbi.gov.
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