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Susan Ballou
is the Program Manager for Forensic Sciences in the Office of Law Enforcement Standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her expertise is in conventional serology, DNA analysis and hair and fiber examinations spanning over twenty years working in the forensic science field. She has contributed to the advancement of forensic science through participation with technical and scientific working groups, forensic associations, and commissions and the American Board of Criminalistics.
John V. Goodpaster
is a Forensic Chemist with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Ammendale, MD, USA. His research interests include the analysis of black powder substitutes and high explosives (both intact and post-blast) using GC–MS and LC–MS. Previously, Dr Goodpaster served as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr Goodpaster's post-doctoral research involved determining artificial and naturally occurring surface components on human hair for the purposes of age discrimination and forensic comparisons.
William MacCrehan
is a Research Chemist with the Analytical Chemistry Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His work has focused on the determination of trace organic compounds in complex matrices of environmental, clinical, and forensic importance. Of particular interest has been the detection of smokeless gunpowder residues that remain after the use of firearms and improvised explosives devices such as pipe bombs. He has mentored seven graduate students in forensic science.
Dennis J. Reeder
is a Senior Manager of New Product Development with Applied Biosystems in Foster City, CA, USA. His research interests include molecular biological methods for detection of nucleic acids in biothreat samples and for genotyping of human DNA for identification purposes. Dr Reeder retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology after 25 years of federal service as an analytical chemist. His work at NIST was focused on developing standard reference materials for the clinical chemistry community and the forensic DNA field. He served as a member of the FBI's DNA Advisory board from 1995 to 2000.
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Ballou, S., Goodpaster, J., MacCrehan, W. et al. Forensic analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 376, 1149–1150 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-003-2068-x
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