GEDNAP Proficiency Tests in 2023

The GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 66 & 67 will start in June 2023. The deadline for result submission will 04 December 2023.
The evaluation of the results will be provided to the participants in February 2024.

GEDNAP Proficiency Tests in 2022

The GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 64 & 65 have started in July 2022. The deadline for result submission was 06 January 2023.
The evaluation of the results will be presented during the 43rd Spurenworkshop that will take place in February 2023 in Bielefeld (Germany).
Organizer is: Prof. Dr. Carsten Tiemann (LabCon OWL, Bad Salzuflen; email: tiemann at laborkrone.de) and his team.

The 41st Stain Workshop took place virtually. Virtual seminars took place on February 23 & 24, 2021. The plenary programme (scientific presentations and the evaluation the GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 60 & 61) took place:
Thursday, February 25, 2021 (1400 – 1710) and
Friday, February 26, 2021 (1000 – 1345).

update: STR allele frequencies Europe

A new release of STRidER (STRs for Identity ENFSI Reference Database), the expanded and enhanced version of the ENFSI STRbASE (2004-2016), is available here since March 30, 2020: https://STRidER.online).

In Germany it is recommended to use most recent the European allele frequencies as a standard. To receive periodic news and stay updated about STRidER, you may register here for the STRidER newsletter:

http://mailman.i-med.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/strider-l

For the biostatistics modules of the GEDNAP proficiency tests in 2020 the recent allele frequencies [source: "Europe" in STRidER_frequencies_2019-08-02] will be used as well.

GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 2019

The GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 58 & 59 have started in July 2019. The deadline for result submission was 20 December 2019.
The evaluation of the results waspresented during the 40th Spurenworkshop that took place on February 20 – 22, 2020 in Munich.
Organizer was: PD Dr. Katja Anslinger (Fax : ++49 (0)89/2180 – 73 310; email: Katja.Anslinger at med.uni-muenchen.de.

The 43rd Stain Workshop will take place from February 23 – 25, 2023 in Bielefeld.
The local organizer is: Prof. Dr. Carsten Tiemann (LabCon OWL, Bad Salzuflen; email: tiemann at laborkrone.de) and his team.

The workshop language will be German, but oral contributions in Englisch are welcome.

GEDNAP Proficiency Tests in 2021

The GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 62 & 63 have started in July 2021. The deadline for result submission is 04 December 2021.
The evaluation of the results will be presented during the 42nd Spurenworkshop that will take place on February 10 – 12, 2022 in Bielefeld (Germany).
Organizer is: Prof. Dr. Carsten Tiemann (LabCon OWL, Bad Salzuflen; email: tiemann at laborkrone.de) and his team.

The evaluation of the results will be presented during the 39. Spurenworkshop will take place on February 21 – 23, 2019 in >Jena
Organizer will be: Dr. rer. nat. Juliane Sanft (Tel.: +49 (0) 3641-9397110; email: juliane.sanft@med.uni-jena.de).

GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 2017

The GEDNAP Proficiency Tests 54 & 55 have started in August 2017. The dealine for result submission was December 2017. The evaluation of the results will be presented during the 38. Spurenworkshop will take place on 22 – 24 February 2018 in >Basel, Switzerland
Organizer will be: Prof. Eva Scheurer and her team

38th Stain Workshop in Basel (Switzerland) 2018

The Institute of Legal Medicine Basel has hosted the 38th Stain Workshop on February 22 – 24, 2018 (http://www.r-km.de/Spurenworkshop2018).