Team:Dundee/caicai2
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SULSA Talks
Mon 8 June
This was our very first opportunity to pitch our project idea,
which we delivered to the other two Scottish iGEM teams. It was great to see what the other
teams were doing and take part in some fun team building activities!
Meeting with Kenny Laing
Mon 15 June
Kenny Laing works for the Scottish Police Services Authority
in Forensic Services where he is team manager overseeing four Mark Enhancement laboratories.
He highlighted to us why fingerprint ageing is so difficult, namely due to the sheer amount of
factors which can affect fingerprint composition, but also stressed how useful a tool with such
capabilities would be.
Meeting with Stuart Macbride
Thurs 25 July
Award-winning, crime author Stuart Macbride was kind enough to spare some
of his time before receiving his honorary degree at the University of Dundee. He was able to give us
an exciting insight into the workings of the criminal mind and his intriguing writing process but
also explained how important it is to manage public expectations of Forensic Science.
Meeting with lawyers
Thurs 2 July
Mark Stewart QC and Brian McConnachie QC both operate in the High Court
of Justiciary and James Laverty is a solicitor and module organiser of Criminal Procedure and Advocacy
Diploma in Legal Practice at the University of Dundee. All three gentlemen unanimously agreed that
each element of our tool kit would be of most value being used in an investigative sense. This showed
that although they may not necessarily be used for providing evidence that would be presented in a
court of law, there is real potential for our devices to play key roles in the earlier stages of
investigations.
Meeting with CSI guy
Thurs 2 July
We were fortunate enough to speak with a Scenes of Crime Officer
who has experience working in a variety of environments. He was very enthusiastic about our BioSpray
idea, saying that an all in one tool such as ours would markedly improve the efficiency of crime
scene investigation since it would significantly reduce the time needed to perform a thorough
examination as well as the potential for contamination.
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