Presentations
DNA is seen as an ultimate tool-- an inarguable truth. It has the power to convict, and the power to exonerate. But in this lively talk, Dr. Greg Hampikian shows that even DNA can make mistakes. Dr. Hampikian is a professor of Biology and Criminal Justice at Boise State University.
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The Idaho Innocence Project: From Amanda Knox to Chris Tapp, Herrett Forum, College of Southern Idaho (2014)
Nullomer Tags: DNA Safeguard Against Contamination, International Symposium on Human Identification (2013)
Amanda Knox: How DNA Convicted and Freed and Innocent Woman, International Symposium on Human Identification (2013)
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher largely on the basis...
The Genetics of Innocence: DNA Lessons from the Amanda Knox Case, National Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (2012)
Hampikian shared data from his lab’s recent publications on forensic DNA analysis, including “The Genetics...
'DNA Analysis in the Amanda Knox Case' and 'Fails: Preventing and Correcting Errors in Forensic DNA Analysis', FORENSICA 2012, 3rd International Conference on Forensic Genetics, The Czechoslovak Society for Forensic Genetics (2012)
The Genetics of Innocence and Guilt, Boise State - Beyond the Blue Faculty Podcasts (2011)
CSI on television has made forensic DNA a household word. But this exciting field continues...
Using Absent Sequences to Study and Predict Evolution (with Tim Andersen and Amit Jain), Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (2006)