Evidence analysis and processing

During National Forensic Science Week, early-career researchers that were awarded FTCoE travel sponsorships to the prestigious Gordon Research Conference and Seminar will present novel projects in forensic DNA analysis.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on September 19, 2018.

Dr. Leon Higley’s work to characterize blow-fly species indicates that there is variation within a single population--the bell curve is wide. Dr. Higley will share his research and discuss how the science is challenging some notions about PMI analysis.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 7, 2018.

This webinar uses data from Project FORESIGHT to examine the effects of the opioid crisis on the demands for laboratory resources and the direct and indirect effects on the work of forensic laboratories.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on August 2, 2017.

We will review the chemistry of fentanyl, its analogs and precursors, their pharmacology and relative potency, and approaches to identifying novel fentanyl analogs in forensic toxicology casework.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on August 8, 2017.

The opioid crisis has impacted animal welfare and safety several ways. This webinar will review risks to pets of opioid abusers and working K9s and will make recommendations to help keep K9s safe, including risk mitigation and emergency preparation.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on August 8, 2017.

The scope of the opioid epidemic presents unprecedented challenges to the medical examiner and coroner community. This webinar will explore the intersection of the opioid epidemic with the work of America’s medical examiners and coroners.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on October 18, 2017.

This webinar focuses on universal and primary prevention efforts to address prescription drug misuse and abuse; and the use of innovative analytic techniques to evaluate their effectiveness.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on October 18, 2017.

This webinar provides strategies & considerations for the trace detection of fentanyl and its analogs. The focus will be on TD-DART-MS and IMS analysis as well as understanding the fate of fentanyl residues that are exposed to different environments.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on October 26, 2017.

In this Webinar the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will present an overview of the opioid overdose epidemic and its public health burden, followed by a description of the multi-faceted public health approach.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 14, 2017.

This webinar will describe the role that the reference material manufacturer plays by providing the tools needed to respond to the current opioid epidemic.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 16, 2017.

This webinar will focus on the North Carolina Medical Examiner System and the toxicology laboratory that serves the system. Included will be information on the changing landscape of death certification and changes to the laboratory approach to testing.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 21, 2017.

This webinar will present the results of the evaluation of Direct Sample Analysis Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry to provide rapid identification of eighteen fentanyl analogues and related synthetic opiates.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence in 2017.

Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015), which will be discussed in this webinar.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence in January 2017.

This webinar will identify partnerships and innovative efforts in the whole of government approach to identify and interdict fentanyl analogues, as well as to heighten awareness and strengthen legal mechanisms for dealing with the illicit fentanyl crisis.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on December 13, 2017.

This presentation discusses experimental tests of a model for drug uptake by human bone and explores how the results may be applied to detect nerve agent exposure from human remains recovered from mass graves during human rights investigations.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on May 9, 2017.

Principles, methods and applications of DNA-based prediction of human appearance traits for forensic and anthropological use with specific insights into eye, hair, and skin colour prediction from DNA.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on January 1, 2017.

This webinar will review the history of SNPs as forensic markers and discuss the design and development of large SNP multiplexes for use on massively parallel sequencing platforms for forensic and missing person identification.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 7, 2017.

This webinar will review the history of SNPs as forensic markers and discuss the design and development of large SNP multiplexes for use on massively parallel sequencing platforms for forensic and missing person identification.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on November 7, 2017.

In this webinar you will discover how multiplex assays targeting CpG sites can be used to predict the age of an individual and determine the body fluid of origin of a sample.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on December 6, 2017.

Firearms identification is undergoing a major change in capability with the adoption of optical topography, which provides a 3D view of the surface of a bullet or cartridge case to capture the full range of subclass and individual characteristics.

This webinar was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on January 10, 2018.