Dr. Catherine Grgicak will be giving an overview of LFTDI’s recent progress in single-cell forensics at Virginia Commonwealth University’s seminar series. In this invited talk she will discuss how single cell genetics can resolve the reliance on boundaries, assumptions and complex proposition building for simple and complex forensic DNA mixtures. Date: Sept 27, 2022 at 12:30pm. See https://forensicscience.vcu.edu/forensic-science-seminar/

Congratulations goes to Nidhi Sheth who was awarded this year’s best poster prize at the 29th Congress of the International Society of Forensic Genetics on her contributions to single-cell forensic DNA analysis.

M.S. Chemistry student, Madison Mulcahy awarded the Dean’s Graduate Travel Grant to present her work on precision forensic DNA analysis at the Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics in Sept 2022. Her presentation titled “Grouped and ungrouped single-cell electropherograms enable precision DNA interpretation: Relevancy and legitimacy of single-cell forensics” will show the benefits of single-cell resolution for forensic DNA mixtures.

Nidhi Sheth (Ph.D. Computational and Integrative Biology) will present her findings on “A forensically relevant unsupervised learning approach that accurately clusters single-cell electropherograms” at this year’s Conference of the International Society for Forensic Genetics.

LFTDI researchers demonstrate that consistency in context is crucial to the current DNA interpretation process and offer solutions to the DNA mixture problem. See the full story on Rutgers-Camden News Now.

LFTDI student and CIB PhD candidate Nidhi Sheth has been selected as an ISHI (International Symposium on Human Identification) Student Ambassadors this year!

 

LFTDI and collaborator Dr. Ken Duffy (National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Hamilton Institute) demonstrate advances in DNA mixture interpretation using forensically relevant single-cell techniques at the 2021 National Institute of Justice Forensic Research Symposium.

Read the full post to see how Nidhi’s Forensic Science Research in DNA Analysis could help speed up the process of solving crimes

Forensic Technology Center of Excellence publishes the NIJ success story on LFTDI’s NOCIt platform – a method to infer the number of contributors to a forensic sample found at a crime scene.

LFTDI student and CIB PhD Candidate, Nidhi Sheth, was awarded an NIJ Graduate Fellowship for her work  on “Selectively analyzing and interpreting DNA from multiple donors with a full Single-Cell strategy“. Nidhi is part of a multi-institutional, inter-disciplinary team of computer scientists, applied mathematicians, data scientists and chemists interested in developing a forensically relevant single-cell pipeline aimed at solving the forensic DNA mixture problem.