2018 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

136 2018 Yearbook Antonella Penacino (Argentina) Professor of Statistics Applied to Forensic Genetics at the INGEN Foundation. She delivered the lecture “Paternity and Matching Calculations and Indices for DNA Analysis: Software, Families, and LRMIX” at the 9th Latin American Conference on Forensic Genetics, organized by the Latin American Society of Forensic Genetics and the Department of Biotechnology at Universidad ORT Uruguay, August 27–29. Dr. Gustavo Penacino (Argentina) Director of the DNA Analysis Unit at the Official College of Pharmacists and Biochemists of the Federal Capital. He delivered the talk “The Different Stages of a DNA Analysis” at the 9th Latin American Conference on Forensic Genetics, organized by the Latin American Society of Forensic Genetics and the Department of Biotechnology at Universidad ORT Uruguay, August 27–29. Antonella Penacino (Argentina) Professor of Statistics Applied to Forensic Genetics at the INGEN Foundation. Dr. Humberto Zurita Añez (Bolivia) Head of Biochemistry and Pharmacy at the National University of the East. Dr. Oriana Urrutia Salinas (Chile) Chemical expert at the Criminalistics Laboratory of the Chilean Investigative Police. Dr. Ixchel de la Luz Martínez (Mexico) Founder and CEO of IdentidADN, a company that provides solutions to issues related to human identification through DNA testing applied to the search for genetic identity and kinship. Nelson Rivera Fernández (Peru) Forensic biologist at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office. Head of the Special Project on Molecular Biology and Forensic Genetics at Alas Peruanas University. Dr. Virgilio Pérez Fernández (Dominican Republic) Geneticist and forensic anthropologist. Professor at the School of Physiological Sciences at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. They delivered the lecture “Current Trends in Forensic Genetics in Latin America” at the 9th Latin American Conference on Forensic Genetics, organized by the Latin American Society of Forensic Genetics and the Department of Biotechnology at Universidad ORT Uruguay, August 27–29. CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2018