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Dr. Greg Hampikian is professor of Biology and Criminal Justice at Boise State University (BSU), Director of the Forensic Justice Project at BSU. He also directs the BSU Wastewater Epidemiology Lab (BSUWEL), and lectures at the University of Idaho College of Law. His work has been featured in Science, on the BBC, CNN and Dateline. Hampikian co-wrote Exit to Freedom with exoneree Calvin Johnson Jr., about Mr. Jonson’s 17-year fight to prove his innocence using DNA. Greg has helped establish innocence organizations in Armenia, France, and Ireland, and served as a DNA expert in more than 3 dozen exonerations including Amanda Knox (Italy), Freddie Lawrence and Paul Jenkins (with Montana Innocence Project), Kerry Robinson (with the Georgia Innocence Project), and Christopher Tapp and Charles Fain in Idaho. In both Idaho cases, his lab worked with police to identify new DNA genealogy matches that led to arrests. His New York Times Op-eds, include "The Dangers of DNA Testing", "When May I Shoot a Student?", and “Men Who Needs Them?"

In addition to forensics his lab currently works on COVID-19, HIV, cancer, and has pioneered the study of absent sequences in nature called Nullomers.