ACAD Guest Speaker - Dr Carlos Vulla

Hosted by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA

ACAD presented Dr Carlos Vulla, Scientific Director of the Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) & Director of the Laboratorio de Inmunogenética y Diagnostico Molecular on Wednesday 18th April.

Forensic genetics for human remains identification: The EAAF experience.

The EAAF (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team) is a non-profit NGO based in Argentina that applies forensic science to the investigation and documentation of human rights violations by providing an independent forensic investigation and recovery of human remains in over 40 countries world-wide. The team was founded in 1984 in response to the need to investigate the disappearance of over 9000 people in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. EAAF combines forensic anthropology, archaeology and genetics to find, exhume and identify victims of disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

Dr Carlos Vulla is the Director of the EAAF Forensic Genetics laboratory and spoke about the EAAF experience with identifying human remains using a range of forensic genetics methods.

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