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AFDAA
MEETING MINUTES
January
25-26, 2007
DAY
1
The
meeting was opened by Chair Joe Warren. A presentation on the
difference between mixture statistics and mixture interpretation was
given by John Planz of the University of North Texas Health Science
Center at Fort Worth. Thomas Curtis of QIAGEN gave us some insights
on dealing with inhibitors in extractions while Dr. Thomas Schnibbe
spoke about extracting "touch DNA". Information on the EZ1
extraction robot was also presented.
The
AFDAA business meeting was called to order by Joe Warren. Aliece
Watts, Secretary, began by thanking Promega for sponsoring the
morning's breakfast. A poster representing some of the AFDAA events
over the last 16 years was displayed. As the web site was down, the
minutes of the last meeting were shown on the screen. A few spelling
corrections were noted. George Schiro made a motion to accept the
minutes after the corrections.
Melba
Ketchum, Treasurer, reported that the organization had approximately
$5500 in the bank. Dues statements will be e-mailed.
George
Duncan, Vice-Chair, presented the persons who have applied for membership.
Qualifications
(including attendance at one meeting) were verified for all except
Scott Schroeder. It was recommended that his application be tabled
until next meeting. A motion was made by George Schiro to accept the
remaining applicants for membership. Melba Ketchum seconded the
motion. The motion passed by voice vote.
Under
old business, Chair Joe Warren requested that the members review the
proposed changes to the by-laws on the AFDAA web site in anticipation
of a request for vote on-line.
New
business included information about the problems with the web site
and that the summer meeting will be held at a conference center in
Austin. Vendor booths and a poster session are possible additions
being considered.
George
Schiro made a motion to close the meeting that was seconded by Melba Ketchum.
Joe
Warren next presented information on the Y-chromosome biology and
Martin Tracy followed up with a lecture on Y-chromosome statistics.
Rhonda
Roby spoke about the new NIJ Expert Systems Testbed Project (NEST)
that compared Gene Mapper ID, FSSi3, and True Allele.
A
question was raised by Kaye Shepard about the definition of
"inconclusive". A discussion followed. The meeting
adjourned to the State Trouper's Association.
DAY
2
George
Schiro of the Acadiana Crime Lab offered suggestions on how to test
defense experts by using the SWGDAM guidelines.
LeAnne
Suchanek of the Southwest Louisiana Crime Lab presented an
interesting case that involved Y-STR testing.
Melba
Ketchum of DNA Diagnostics spoke of new SNP technology being used in
animal testing.
Chris
Comar of Broward County Sheriff Office presented his research on
robotics including the QIAGEN BioRobot 8000.
Brandt
Cassidy of DNA Solutions shared his validation studies using POP 7
and PowerPlex16 with the ABI 3130.
Kim
Huston gave the Promega update on Plexor HY quantitation kit,
improvements in the PowerPlex 16 kit, DNA IQ use in casework and
Maxwell 16 robot.
Maurice
Padilla of Applied Biosystems spoke about improvements to the
Quantifiler kit and the ABI 7500 instrument. He also introduced VALID
software that will track validation experiments, analyze data and
summarize the data to create a protocol. The next generation of
GeneMapper ID is near completion. Persons interested in attending the
AB user's meeting at the AAFS meeting in February should register
on-line. AB has a Forensic Newsletter that is also available on-line.
The
meeting concluded at noon.
Minutes
respectively submitted by Aliece Watts, Secretary |
