Projects per year
Personal profile
Area of Expertise
Dr. August Woerner's research interests are generally in the areas of computation and population genetics, with a focus in forensics, bioinformatics and machine learning. August’s current research projects run the gamut from streamlining bioinformatics pipelines—making them faster and more user friendly—to machine learning and statistical approaches to processing and calling MPS data, to inference problems in population genetics and genomics.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD in Genetics, University of Arizona
MS in Computer Science, University of Arizona
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Genome
Medicine & Life Sciences
Population
Medicine & Life Sciences
Hominidae
Medicine & Life Sciences
Haplotypes
Medicine & Life Sciences
Alleles
Medicine & Life Sciences
Forensic Anthropology
Medicine & Life Sciences
Microsatellite Repeats
Medicine & Life Sciences
Microbiota
Medicine & Life Sciences
Network
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Projects 2017 2020
Better algorithms and chemistry for mixture interpretation
NIJ: National Institute of Justice
1/01/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Development of a Mitochondrial Mixture Database and Interpretation Tool
NIJ: National Institute of Justice
1/01/18 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Reducing Human Trafficking Through Forensics in Central America
US Department of State Bureau of INL
20/09/17 → 20/09/18
Project: Research
A Sustainable Approach to High Confidence Metagenomics Analysis of Complex Samples
30/05/17 → 7/05/18
Project: Research
Research Output 2001 2019
A novel phylogenetic approach for de novo discovery of putative nuclear mitochondrial (pNumt) haplotypes
Smart, U., Budowle, B., Ambers, A., Soares Moura-Neto, R., Silva, R. & Woerner, A. E., 1 Nov 2019, In : Forensic Science International: Genetics. 43, 102146.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Mitochondrial Genome
Haplotypes
Noise
Forensic Genetics
Databases
Artificial fingerprints for cross-comparison of forensic DNA and protein recovery methods
LeSassier, D. S., Schulte, K. Q., Manley, T. E., Smith, A. R., Powals, M. L., Albright, N. C., Ludolph, B. C., Weber, K. L., Woerner, A. E., Gardner, M. W. & Curtis Hewitt, F., 1 Jan 2019, In : PLoS ONE. 14, 10, e0223170.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Dermatoglyphics
Recovery
DNA
skin (animal)
Proteins
Compound stutter in D2S1338 and D12S391
Woerner, A. E., King, J. L. & Budowle, B., 1 Mar 2019, In : Forensic Science International: Genetics. 39, p. 50-56 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Linear Models
Nucleotides
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Copan microFLOQ® Direct Swab collection of bloodstains, saliva, and semen on cotton cloth
Sherier, A. J., Kieser, R. E., Novroski, N. M. M., Wendt, F. R., King, J. L., Woerner, A. E., Ambers, A., Garofano, P. & Budowle, B., 1 Jan 2019, In : International journal of legal medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Semen
Saliva
Coloring Agents
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Blood Stains
Expanding beyond the current core STR loci: An exploration of 73 STR markers with increased diversity for enhanced DNA mixture deconvolution
Novroski, N. M. M., Wendt, F. R., Woerner, A. E., Bus, M. M., Coble, M. D. & Budowle, B., 1 Jan 2019, In : Forensic Science International: Genetics. 38, p. 121-129 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Microsatellite Repeats
Alleles
DNA
Forensic Genetics
Population Genetics