UZ Leuven

Cooperation with the Archaeology department

• DNA testing of human and animal remains from Sagalassos (K.U.Leuven).
• DNA testing of remains of the Merovingians (France)
• Reconstruction of the domestication of pigs in Anatolia (KBIN)

Historical cases

• DNA testing of the hair of Mary Tudor (England)
• DNA testing of the hair of Louis XVII (France)

Human diversity

• Y chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms among the Belgians
• Genealogic project 'Oud-Hertogdom Brabant'

Projects in forensic DNA analysis

• Development of mini-STR methodology for analysis of degraded DNA
• Use of "next-generation sequencing" technology in forensic DNA testing
• Genetic identification of animal species (mainly domestic) and plants (drugs) 

Cooperation with DVI (Brussels)

• Toxicology of post-mortem samples and exhumations (volatile compounds)

Toxicology projects, including assignments from the Federal Public Service and in the context of Master's studies

• ‘WASIMP', Impurity Profiling of Waste, in the context of illegal and the production of amphetamines
• Research into cocaine in surface water in Belgium
• Ultra-Fast/High-Performance High Pressure Liquid Chromatography combined met MS/MS for the analysis of low-dose narcotics and other psychotropic substances (UFLC/MS/MS)

Forensic imaging project

• IWT project - forensic imaging (ESAT, forensic odontology)
• post-mortem coronarography, blooming artefact, hard and soft plaques
• post-mortem 3D CT total body scan analysis
• reconstruction of the (linear) bullet trajectory with 3D CT-scan
• establishing a databank for bone trauma (blunt, semi-blunt and sharp trauma)
• digital crime scene reconstruction
• (photogrammetry and 3D CT in facial reconstruction)

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