On Wednesday September 21st, the CSFS hosted its second digital poster competition over Twitter! The CSFS Board of Directors and the Conference Organizing Committee would like to thank our panel of judges for their time and efforts, and thank all the #CSFSPoster2022 participants for sharing their research with the community. We look forward to hosting more events like this in the near future!

The winners of the Twitter Poster Competition are:

  • 1st place – DNA Analysis of Frontline Officer Cut Resistant Leather Slash Gloves. Keelin Dowdall*, Krista Currie Laurentian University
  • 2nd place – Analysis of Bloodstain Degradation and Time Since Deposition Using Spectroscopic Methods
    Laurianne Huard*, Frank Crispino, Cyril Muehlethaler
    L’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • 3rd Place – Searching for Fingermarks to Unlock a Smartphone
    Laurie Caron*, Marilyne Cloutier*, Maxime Bérubé, Benoit Daoust
    L’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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