Wildlife Forensics Scientists Meet

120 wildlife forensics scientists from around the world met at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, for the inaugural conference held by the newly formed Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences.

Instructor:
Mildad Biñas, PhD, Sr. Field Applications Scientist, Applied Biosystems, Part of Life Technologies

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This workshop is designed to cover basic experimental design and results interpretation for quantitative Real-Time PCR experiments. Course topics include the theory of the 5' Nuclease Assay and the SYBR Green Dye Assay, principles of designing an efficient assay, quantification with a standard curve, results interpretation and discussion.

Instructor:
Bruce S. Weir, University of Washington The workshop will be run in four 90-minute sessions, with time for discussion and exercises in each session.

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Instructor:
Robert Anderson, US Department of Justice

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Instructors: Bonnie C. Yates and Cookie Sims, US Fish & Wildlife Service

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The Society for Wildlife Forensic Science was formed in November 2009 with the mission of developing wildlife forensic science into a comprehensive, integrated and mature discipline.