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| | Central Identification Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Haugen was employed as a Medicolegal Death Investigator for the Medical Examiner's Office in St. Louis County, Missouri and served as the consultant Forensic Anthropologist for St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson Counties, Missouri. |
| | During this employment, she received considerable specialized training in the areas of death investigation, crime scene analysis, forensic entomology and mass fatality incident response management. |
| | Kontanis’ research focuses on the medicolegal aspects of mass fatality incident management, development of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA postmortem degradation profiles for various soft and osseous tissues using real-time quantitative PCR technology, the evaluation of several PCR inhibitor detection strategies and the assessment of various DNA extraction and purification methods and PCR inhibitor mitigation procedures. |
| www.jpac.pacom.mil /CIL/Scientists.htm (8693 words) |
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