Fifth ISABS Conference in Forensic Genetics and Molecular Anthropology
Split, Croatia, September 3-7, 2007
ORGANIZERS
Program Directors
- Moses Schanfield, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- Dragan Primorac, University of Split, Split and Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia
- Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
Organizing Institutions
Program Committee
- Damir Marjanović (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Pavao Rudan (University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia)
Organizing Committee
- Šimun Anđelinović
- Ivana Erceg Ivkošić, Chair
- Ante Ivkošić
- Dalibor Marijanović
- Inga Marijanović
- Damir Marjanović
- Petar Projić
- Ivana Šamija
- Vedrana Škaro
Assistance to the Organizing Committee
- Ivana Furčić
- Andreja Leskovac
- Igor Matić
- Maja Radnić
- Duje Rako
- Zrinka Romić
- Jelena Todorović
- Ante Vulić
SPEAKERS
The EMBO Lecture - Plenary speaker for this year's annual meeting: Svante Pääbo (Max-Planck-Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany)
Forensic Genetics
- Theodore Anderson (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, MD, USA)
- Frederick Bieber (Harvard Medical School and Birgham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)
- Zoran Budimlija (NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY, USA)
- Bruce Budowle (FBI Laboratory, Quantico, VA, USA)
- Casandra Calloway (Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, CA, USA)
- Angela van Daal (Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
- Katja Drobnič (Forensic Science Centre, Ministry of Interior, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Nils Gerke (Eppenforf AG, Hamburg, Germany)
- Andreas Hellmann (Bundeskriminalamt, Kriminaltechnisches Institut, KT32, Wiesbaden, Germany)
- Mitchell Holland (Forensic Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA)
- Edwin Huffine (Bode Technology Group, Lorton, VA, USA)
- Rebecca Just (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, MD, USA)
- Grzegorz Kaczmarczyk (Department of Molecular Biology and Clinical Genetics, Internal Medicine, Krakow, Poland)
- Agnieszka Krzyżańska (Molecular Technique Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wrocław, Poland)
- Henry Lee (University of New Haven, West Haven and Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory, Meriden, CT, USA)
- José A. Lorente (Department of Legal Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain)
- Damir Marjanović (Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Sarajevo, Sarajevo, B&H and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Marilyn Menotti-Raymond (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA)
- Rebecca Mikulasovich (NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY, USA)
- Tahnee M. Nelson (San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Pieter van Oers (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA)
- Thomas Parsons (International Commission on Missing Persons, Sarajevo, B&H)
- Lutz Roewer (InstituteOf Legal Medicine, Charité University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany)
- Antti Sajantila (Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
- Brion C. Smith (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, MD, USA)
- Poonam Taneja (Molecular Devices, MDS Analytical Technologies Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
- Daniel Vanek (Forensic DNA Service, Prague, Czech Republic)
Molecular Anthropology
- Kaye Ballantyne (Victoria Police Forensic Services Department, Macleod, VIC, Australia)
- Ranjan Deka (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
- Tomislav Domazet-Lošo (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Henry Erlich (Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, CA, USA)
- Coralie Frassati (Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Taeko Kashima (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
- Eliza Khusnutdinova (Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation)
- Laszlo Mark (Institute of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary)
- Irena Martinović Klarić (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Erika Nagle (Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia)
- Giuseppe Passarino (Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy)
- Mario Pirastu (Institute of Population Genetics, National Research Council, C.N.R., Alghero and Shardna Life Sciences Cagliari, Italy)
- Pavao Rudan (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia)
- Irina Udina (N.I. General Genetics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation)
- Peter Underhill (Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA)
- Richard Villems (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia)
Advances in Genomic Methods
Jean-Pierre Kocher (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)
David Smith (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)
George Vasmatzis (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)
