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Genetics; Genomics; Multi-omics approaches
High-throughput sequencing
Rapid DNA
Mitochondrial DNA
Human Identity
Animal Forensics; Wildlife Forensics
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Dr. Jennifer Cihlar is an Assistant Professor in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics Department at UNTHSC and a member of the UNTHSC Center for Human Identification’s Research Unit where her efforts focus on improving the forensic community’s ability to identity humans associated with crime, missing persons, and human and wildlife trafficking victims through forensic genomic research. With these goals in mind, Jennifer’s current research efforts include development of molecular biology technologies, optimization of SOPs for massively parallel sequencing and Rapid DNA technologies, bioinformatic assessment of the performance and noise in mitochondrial genome analyses that can help guide thresholding strategies for forensic laboratories, identification of novel genetic markers for human and wildlife identification, and investigation into the use of portable genetic technologies to aid law enforcement efforts in curtailing wildlife trafficking.
Education/Academic qualification
BS in Biochemistry, Texas A & M University
PhD in Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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General Forensic Testing: Testing & Analysis Work
Budowle, B. (PI), Churchill Cihlar, J. (CoI) & Churchill Cihlar, J. (PI)
26/08/14 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Erratum: More Comprehensive Forensic Genetic Marker Analyses for Accurate Human Remains Identification Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing[BMC Genomics. 2016;17 Suppl 9:750.] DOI:10.1186/s12864-016-3087-2
Ambers, A. D., Churchill, J. D., King, J. L., Stoljarova, M., Gill-King, H., Assidi, M., Abu-Elmagd, M., Buhmeida, A., Al-Qahtani, M. & Budowle, B., 20 Apr 2017, In: BMC Genomics. 18, 1, 312.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Erratum to “Population and performance analyses of four major populations with Illumina's FGx Forensic Genomics System” (Forensic Sci. Int.: Genet. (2017) (30) (81–92)(S1872497317301369)(10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.06.004))
Churchill, J. D., Novroski, N. M. M., King, J. L., Seah, L. H. & Budowle, B., Mar 2018, In: Forensic Science International: Genetics. 33, p. e17Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Increasing the discrimination power of ancestry- and identity-informative SNP loci within the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep Kit
King, J. L., Churchill, J. D., Novroski, N. M. M., Zeng, X., Warshauer, D. H., Seah, L. H. & Budowle, B., Sep 2018, In: Forensic Science International: Genetics. 36, p. 60-76 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Population Genetic Analysis with the NimaGen IDseek OmniSNP Identity Informative SNP Typing Kit
Mandape, S., Muenzler, M., Bus, M., King, J. L. & Churchill Cihlar, J., 22 Jun 2024, In: Forensic Genomics. 4, 2, p. 43-81Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A continuous statistical phasing framework for the analysis of forensic mitochondrial dna mixtures
Smart, U., Cihlar, J. C., Mandape, S. N., Muenzler, M., King, J. L., Budowle, B. & Woerner, A. E., Feb 2021, In: Genes. 12, 2, p. 1-21 21 p., 128.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review