Organizer:

Conference is organized under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts

Co-organized by:

• Mayo Clinic
• Penn State University
• University of New Haven
• Institute for Medical BioMathematics
• The Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science
• University of Split
• Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
• University of Rijeka
• European Science Foundation
• Genos - Forensic DNA Laboratory
• Croatian Society of Human Genetics
• St. Catherine's hospital
• Eye Clinic Svjetlost

Program/Conference Directors:

• Moses Schanfield, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
• Dragan Primorac, University of Split, Split, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

Program Committee:

• Gordan Lauc (Genos, Ltd, DNA laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Damir Marjanović (Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (INGEB), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Genos and Forensic DNA laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Pavao Rudan (University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)

Scientific Committee:

Forensic Genetics:

• Antonio Alonso (National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Madrid, Spain)
• Zoran Budimlija (Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY, USA)
• Cecelia Crouse (Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
• Jürgen Henke (Institut für Blutgruppenforschung, Köln, Germany)
• Mitchell Holland (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Henry Lee (University of New Haven, West Haven and Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory, Meriden, CT, USA)
• José Antonio Lorente (Pfizer - University of Granada & Andalusian Government Centre for Genomics & Oncology, Granada, Spain)
• Marilyn Menotti-Raymond (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA)
• Antti Sajantila (Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)

Molecular and Cellular Medicine:

• Henry Erlich (Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Alameda, CA, USA)
• Francis Glorieux (Genetics Unit, Shriners Hospital for Children and McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)
• Robert Huber - Nobel Laureate 1988 (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany)
• Doron Lancet (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
• Gordan Lauc (Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
• Pier Franco Pignatti (Institute of Biology and Genetics and Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Verona, Italy)
• Richard J. Roberts - Nobel Prize 1993 (New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, USA)
• Igor Rudan (University of Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland, UK)
• David I. Smith (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA)

Molecular Anthropology:

• Pavao Rudan (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia)
• Peter Underhill (Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA)

Local Organizing Committee:

• Šimun Anđelinović
• Ivana Erceg Ivkošić, Chair
• Ante Ivkošić
• Dalibor Marijanović
• Inga Marijanović
• Damir Marjanović
• Petar Projić
• Duje Rako - webmaster
• Ivana Šamija Projić
• Vedrana Škaro

Assistance to the Local Organizing Committee:

• Šime Brkić
• Katarina Caput Mihalić
• Mateja Hajdinjak
• Martina Kralj
• Ivana Kutle
• Josip Madunić
• Mija Marinković
• Ivan Mateljak
• Igor Matić
• Marija Mazor
• Zrinka Romić
• Jerko Štambuk
• Ante Vulić