Forensic Genetics and Massively Parallel Sequencing

About

Join our summer course and learn more about the fascinating work in forensic genetics, MPS, and get hands-on experience with data analysis within MPS.

You have the option of receiving a comprehensive insight into forensic genetics and a broad introduction to massively parallel sequencing (MPS) work including data analysis.

The course focuses on relevant forensic topics such as:

Age determination using methylation patterns (metDNA)
Complete mitochondria sequencing
Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG)
Prediction of the suspect’s externally visible characteristics and ancestry
Molecular autopsy (sudden cardiac death)
MPS of forensic genetic markers (SNPs and STRs)
Tissue identification

Course leader

Jeppe Dyrberg Andersen and Marie-Louise Kampmann

Target group

Master students

You can participate, if you have completed a bachelor's degree within:
Human biology and immunology
biochemistry
bioinformatics
biology
biotechnology
pharmaceutics
exercise and sports sciences
medicine
or a corresponding degree within the field of health sciences or natural sciences
You are required to have a basic knowledge of genetics.

Course aim

After completing this course, you will be able to understand, analyse, and interpret forensic genetic data. You will be able to understand the latest research and advantages with forensic genetics and MPS work and data analysis. Finally, you will be able to work with command line and understand the common way of analysing MPS data.

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