Talks and courses related to the pedsuite • pedsuite

Upcoming events

Oct 17. Recent advances in the analysis of complex DVI cases. Invited talk at the ISFG-GeFI meeting, Rome, Italy. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.
Sept 18. Advanced Theoretical Challenges: Kinship. Presentation of solutions and results at the ISFG-GHEP meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.
Sept 4-5. Pedigree Analysis. ISFG Summer School 2025, Barcelona, Spain. Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Course homepage.

June 21. Using the X-FORCE: Solving an old identification case with the FORCE panel. Invited talk at the Forensic Analysis of Human DNA Gordon Research Conference, Newry, Maine, United States. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.
May 19. KLINK – a user-friendly app for kinship testing with linked markers. Oral presentation at the 2025 ISFG-ESWG meeting, Oslo. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.
May 15. Estimating relatedness and pedigree relationships from genomic data. Invited talk at the 8th Annual CeFH Symposium, Oslo. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.

Oct 7, 14, 21 and 28. Kinship and pedigree analysis: Methods and applications. Four-part lecture series, part of the GHEP-ISFG Online School 2024. Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Course homepage.
Oct 15. DIVIANA: A free, user-friendly app for complex DVI cases. Research seminar RMF, Storo, Oslo. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland.
Oct 14. Genetic Relatedness. Half-day workshop at the Young Investigator Day at the NOFE Conference. Lecturer: Magnus D. Vigeland. Course homepage.
Oct 10. DIVIANA: A free, user-friendly app for complex DVI cases. Invited online talk at the 2nd Intl Symposium on DNA Supported Missing Persons and Disaster Victim Identification, Tbilisi, Georgia. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland. Slides (extended version of the ISFG talk).
Sept 24. Advanced Theoretical Challenges: Kinship. Presentation of solutions and results for the theoretical proficiency test prepared for GHEP-ISFG 2024. Exercises. Presentation.
Sept 11. DIVIANA: A free, user-friendly app for complex DVI cases. Oral presentation at the ISFG Congress 2024, Santiago de Compostela. Speaker: Magnus D. Vigeland. Slides.
Sept 10. Kinship statistics and pedigree analysis. Pre-congress workshop, ISFG Congress 2024, Santiago de Compostela. Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Course homepage.

Aug 30-31. Pedigree Analysis. ISFG Summer School 2023. Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Course homepage.

June 13-17. Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. NORBIS 1-week intensive course, Oslo, Norway. Teachers: Magnus D. Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Course homepage.
May 23-24. Pedigrees and relatedness analysis in R. Lecture and workshop at the Polish Forensic Genetics Conference, Zakopane. Lecturer: Magnus D. Vigeland.
- Lecture: Pedigrees and relatedness analysis in R
- Lecture: Introduction to the pedsuite
- Exercises 1: Pedigree analysis in R
- Exercises 2: Forensic case studies

Aug 18 and 25. Statistical power in missing person cases. Online lecture series for the Proyecto de Cooperación Triangular Argentina-Colombia-Unión Europea. Lecturer: Magnus D. Vigeland.
- Lecture 1: Do we have enough data?
- Lecture 2: Who should be exhumed?
Jul 28-30. Pedigree Analysis in R. ISFG Summer School - Virtual Edition 2021. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Magnus D. Vigeland. Course homepage.

Jan 06-10. Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. NORBIS 1-week intensive course, Oslo, Norway. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Magnus D. Vigeland. Course homepage.

Jan 08-12. Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. NORBIS 1-week intensive course, Oslo, Norway. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Magnus D. Vigeland. Details and program.

Nov 16-19. Statistical methods in genetics using R. 4-day intensive course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Magnus D. Vigeland. Course homepage.