Join us in New Orleans – AAFS 2017

The 69^th annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences will be held in New Orleans Feb 13^th – 18^th. This year’s theme is Our Future Reflects Our Past: The Evolution of Forensic Science. From Anthropology to Biology to Toxicology, there’s a session on nearly everything you’d want to know about in crime scene analysis. We’ll be there with our revolutionary Applied Biosystems™ forensic DNA analysis solutions and our Thermo Scientific™ forensic toxicology products.

What do you plan to do when you are not out on Bourbon Street, eating creole food and listening to some of the best jazz and Dixieland bands around? Here are some activities that you should add to your calendar and be sure to stop by booth 614 at AAFS.

If You Are Interested in Forensic DNA Analysis: 

Luncheon Workshops

Wednesday, Feb 15^th, 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Room: 8 Block Kitchen and Bar
Extending Your Quantification Workflow for Upfront Decision Support to Streamline Sample Processing
Thursday, Feb 16^th, 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Room: 8 Block Kitchen and Bar 
Maximize Your Casework Results with the Proven Performance of CE and the power of NGS
Friday, Feb 17^th, 12:00pm – 1:00pm, in Room: Reliance 2
Integrating and Centralizing Your Workflows with Applied Biosystems™ Converge™ Software

Oral Presentations

Thursday, Feb 16^th 
GENERAL Session
3:30pm – 3:45pm E58 A Follow-Up Study: Recovery of “Touch” DNA From Selected Firearms Using the Single 4N6FLOQSwabs™ Method Maher Noureddine, PhD*; James A. Bailey, PhD

Friday, Feb 17^th
Criminalistics Session
2:10pm – 2:25pm B189 The Use of Microhaplotypes in the Analysis and Deconvolution of Mixed DNA Samples Lindsay D. Bennett, GWU
4:05pm – 4:20pm B195 Forensic Analysis of the Entire Mitochondrial Genome on Ion Torrent Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) Platforms Jennifer D. Churchill, PhD, UNT

Saturday, Feb 18^th
Session II, Trace DNA Samples and Improving Yields
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. B210 Increasing DNA Recovery With Nylon Flock Swabs and One-Step Spin Baskets Angela Ambers, MA; Rachel E. Wiley, MFS; Nicole M. Novroski, MS; Bruce Budowle, PhD*

When you are reviewing posters, here are a few you’ll want to stop by and see

B46 Comparative Tolerance of Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) Chemistries to Inhibited Samples
Kyleen Elizabeth Elwick, BA*; Charity M. Beherec, MS; David A. Gangitano, PhD; Sheree R. Hughes-Stamm, PhD

B47 Fetal DNA Detection in Pregnancy Serum Using the Ion Personal Genome System With an Identity Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Panel Jihyun Lee; Hee Jin Seo; Moon Young Kim, MD; Chong Jai Kim, MD;
Kun Woo Kim, MD; Doyeong Hwang, MD; Soong Deok Lee, PhD*

B48 A Preliminary Sensitivity Assessment Comparing Two Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Laboratory Workflows for Forensic Analysis
Adriana N. Swatzell*; Jocelyn M. Bush, MS; Elizabeth Montano, MS

H20 Methods for Improvement of Allele Recovery With the GlobalFiler Assay
Sheri J. Olson, MS; Allison Holt, PhD*

B133 The Effect of Using an Extra Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Cycle With GlobalFiler When Amplifying Skeletal Samples
LeAnn M. Harrel, BS*; Sheree R. Hughes-Stamm, PhD

Or, If You Have More of a Toxicology Interest:

Luncheon Workshop

Thursday, Feb 16^th, 12:00- 1:00pm, Room: Strand 9
Learn How Industry Experts Capture Traces of Tomorrow’s Drugs Today With Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™-based high resolution, accurate mass (HRAM) MS

Oral Presentation

Thursday, Feb 16^th
Analytical Methods in Toxicology Session
4:30pm – 4:45pm K52
The Screening of Biofluids for the Detection of Traditional Illicit Drugs, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), and Pharmaceuticals by Automated Online Extraction Using Turbulent Flow Chromatography and High Resolution Accurate Mass Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap (Dr. Giampietro Frison)

When you are reviewing posters, here are a few you’ll want to stop by and see

K19 Comparison of Two Screening and Confirmation Mass Spectrometry Methods
Kristine Van Natta

K20 Screening, Confirmation and Quantitation of Synthetic Cathinones and Cannabinoids in Urine by High-Resolution Accurate-Mass Mass Spectrometry
Kristine Van Natta

K29 A Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Quantitative Analysis of Cocaine and Its Metabolites in Urine, Oral Fluid, and Blood for Forensic Toxicology
Rory Doyle

K30 A Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Quantitative Analysis of Hallucinogenic Drugs in Urine, Oral Fluid, and Blood for Forensic Toxicology
Rory Doyle

We look forward to seeing you in the Big Easy at booth 614.

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