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Topic: Researchers Demonstrate Novel Method For Studying The DNA Binding Of Small Molecules
In Denver, results of the DNA Burglary Project, which was also carried out in Topeka, Kan., Orange County, Calif., Phoenix and Los Angeles, is yielding very positive results. “In Denver, more than 40 habitual burglars have been caught since the program from the National Institute of Justice began in November 2005…. And each habitual burglar commits about 243 burglaries per year…”
In Oregon, family members of two young murder victims are joining forces to pass new laws on missing person cases. Their proposal - which is under consideration in Oregon, Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey – is based on the tremendous number of unidentified bodies and missing person cases across the country.
“Under the bill, police departments would be directed to send DNA samples from bodies that remain unidentified after 30 days to a federally funded lab in Texas, where they'd be entered into a national database.” Families could also submit their own DNA or available sample from the missing persons in order to hopefully get a match.
Following these stories we are including a number of new and ongoing cases involving the use of DNA evidence.
Denver part of DNA analysis project helping nab burglars
After Denver police nabbed a man who later admitted to more than 1,000 burglaries, the burglary rate in West Washington Park plunged about 40 percent, authorities said.
The recent arrest was made through DNA analysis, previously a rare procedure for property crimes. But that was before Denver, along with four other U.S. metropolitan areas, received a federal grant aimed at targeting burglars.
The Denver district attorney and police are looking for ways to expand the DNA Burglary Project after it's scheduled to end in September.
About $150,000 a year is needed to keep it going, said Mitch Morrissey, Denver district attorney. "Our hope is to convince city leaders that this is an important project," he said Monday.
In addition to Denver, grants went to Topeka, Kan., Orange County, Calif., Phoenix and Los Angeles.
DNA analysis has largely been used for major crimes such as rape and murder because of cost, officials said.
Cases where DNA is present also draw higher sentences for habitual burglars. The average sentence for burglars linked by DNA is 12 years, compared with six months without it, police said.
David Lazer, a Harvard University professor and editor of "DNA and the Criminal Justice System," said there's a national trend toward using DNA to solve property crimes.
In Denver, more than 40 habitual burglars have been caught since the program from the National Institute of Justice began in November 2005, said Sonny Jackson, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department.
And each habitual burglar commits about 243 burglaries per year, according to a police statement.
"It's paid dividends in solving crimes, and that's the bottom line," Jackson said.
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Families favor bill for DNA database
SALEM - Their faces were everywhere - first on fliers passed out in their hometown, then on billboards on the side of the highway, and later, plastered across the cover of People magazine and in constant rotation on CNN.
And then they were gone, Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, the classmates and dance squad members from Oregon City whose bodies were uncovered in August 2002, buried in a sadistic neighbor's backyard, after months of searching.
This would have been the month that the two graduated from high school.
Instead, their mothers have joined with other families across the nation who have lived in limbo, not knowing whether spouses and siblings are dead or alive, to press for passage of new laws on how police should handle missing person cases.
Their proposal - which is under consideration in Oregon, Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey - centers on the nearly 50,000 unidentified bodies housed at morgues across the country, even as an estimated 105,000 missing persons cases remain open.
Under the bill, police departments would be directed to send DNA samples from bodies that remain unidentified after 30 days to a federally funded lab in Texas, where they'd be entered into a national database.
Additionally, families could choose to submit their own DNA samples, or a baby tooth or lock of hair belonging to a loved one who had been missing for more than a month, to the same database. The idea is to cross-check the data, and find matches.
Lending her name to the bill has made some painful memories flood back, said Lori Pond, who remembers the earliest days of her daughter's disappearance, when police thought 12-year-old Ashley Pond might be a runaway, and she was faced with printing out her own fliers and handing them out on the streets of their hometown.
"There are times it brings up the loss of my daughter, but I am hoping for good to come out of all of this," Pond said.
Michelle Duffy, the mother of 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis, said that in an odd way, she and Pond were the lucky ones; their daughters' case had that mysterious alchemy that vaulted their story into the national spotlight. And when the girls' bodies were found, their families didn't have to wait more than 24 hours for a positive identification.
But hundreds of people disappear every month, and their faces flicker on the local news for a night or two and then go dark, she said, and their families never get the same kind of resolution.
"If the kids wouldn't have disappeared in the same way, from the same place, no one would have cared," Duffy said.
Nationally, similar legislation already is in place in Colorado, Washington state and Washington, D.C., said Kelly Jolkowski, one of the founders of the Campaign for the Missing, whose 19-year-old son disappeared without a trace three years ago from their home in Nebraska. Future campaigns are being organized in Missouri, New York, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, she said.
"How do I know some body in some morgue somewhere isn't my son, and they just didn't get the DNA from his body, so I will never know?" Jolkowski asked.
In Oregon, local police worked with missing person advocates on the bill, said Kevin Campbell, the executive director of the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police.
Last Tuesday, the day Oregon House members unanimously passed the bill, was the third anniversary of the day that 21-year-old Domingo Ramirez disappeared from his home in Southern Oregon, headed out on a camping trip.
His mother, Yvonne Company of Selma, has been searching for him ever since. She said her hope is that the new legislation would lead to the identification of his body, and perhaps, a conviction of his killers.
"So many things can come when they find the remains," she said.
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New and ongoing cases involving the use of DNA evidence include:
Arkansas - A cross-country drifter who sexually assaulted and murdered a New Jersey woman while high on moonshine and heroin was sentenced Thursday to a life term that won't begin until he completes a life-plus-10-year sentence he is serving in Montana for one of several killings linked to him.
A DNA sample ultimately tied Montana State Prison inmate Ronald James Ward to the death of Kristin Laurite, 25, as well as the brutal killings of two other women in California. But, sitting in the Conway County courthouse, the man with a stenciled "Already Dead" tattoo across his chest sobbed as Laurite's mother called him a coward for taking her daughter's life.
Laurite, who left her Scotch Plains, N.J., home on a cross-country road trip to Eureka, Calif., stopped at the secluded westbound Interstate 40 rest stop outside of Morrilton on Aug. 25, 2000. Other motorists recalled Laurite splashing water on her face and letting her two dogs out of her yellow 1972 Volkswagen van to run down to a nearby pond. Laurite's dogs led officers to her body the next day.
By 2005, DNA evidence linked Ward to the murder of Jackie Travis, a former Newport, Ark. resident found dead in 2000 in Merced, Calif. Police found Travis brutally beaten and strangled, with symbols carved into her skin. The evidence also matched material from the murder of Shela La Rae Polly of Modesto, Calif.
The DNA traced back to a sample from Ward, already serving a life sentence plus 10 years for the shooting death of Craig Petrich in the Sapphire Mountains of western Montana.
Ward pleaded no contest Tuesday to Laurite's murder, after telling lawyers he could not remember ever seeing Laurite. Irwin said Ward, who had worked on a garbage truck, left West Virginia with "four five-gallon jugs of moonshine and heroin" after finding his girlfriend with another man.
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North Carolina - For months, a defense lawyer testified Thursday, Durham County Dist. Atty. Mike Nifong rebuffed all requests for detailed DNA test results in a highly publicized rape investigation, saying he had provided all relevant results.
After six months of legal sparring last year, Nifong suddenly released 1,844 pages of highly technical DNA data. Defense lawyers then uncovered what they say Nifong tried to hide: DNA from at least four unidentified men had been found on the clothing and body of a stripper who had accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her — but none of the DNA was from a defendant.
"We were bewildered by the fact that it had never been provided to us before," defense lawyer Brad Bannon told a North Carolina State Bar panel investigating Nifong's conduct.
The bar has charged Nifong with withholding exculpatory evidence, lying to judges, and making prejudicial public statements while pursuing the rape prosecution. The state's attorney general eventually dismissed all charges in the Duke case.
Nifong, 58, a career prosecutor, could be disbarred if found guilty. If so, he would probably be obligated to step down as district attorney, according to North Carolina legal authorities.
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California - DNA consistent with Phil Spector's genetic markers was found on Lana Clarkson's breast but was not present on the gun that killed her, on the bullets in the weapon or under her broken fingernail, a sheriff's criminalist testified Tuesday.
Steve Renteria, who said he has worked with DNA analysis since 1994, made the disclosures under cross-examination by defense attorney Christopher Plourd in the music producer's murder trial. A prosecutor had not raised the issue of DNA on the actress' breast during his inquiry.
A swab from Lana Clarkson's left breast "yielded a mixed profile that was consistent with two donors," Renteria said. "The major donor in that sample was Lana Clarkson herself - it's her own skin surface so one would predict that - and the minor donor, the types found, were consistent with were originating from Phil Spector."
A microscopic examination revealed no sperm cells, Renteria said, but it did find cells that can be found in saliva, as well as lining the mucous membranes of all body openings.
However, Renteria said he could find no DNA consistent with Spector on the gun or the bullets in the fully loaded weapon. Only one bullet had been expended from the snub-nose .38-caliber revolver.
Nail scrapings from Clarkson's right thumb also turned up none of Spector's DNA, Renteria said.
The lack of DNA on the gun could raise questions about what a chauffeur saw at Spector's home. He testified that he saw the record producer emerge from his home holding a bloody gun and declare, "I think I killed somebody."
The gun was found on the floor beside Clarkson's leg.
The lack of DNA from Spector under Clarkson's fingernail supports a defense theory that that there was no struggle, and the gun evidence further suggests that Clarkson pulled the trigger. Defense attorneys have argued that Clarkson killed herself.
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New York - Using DNA evidence left at crime scenes more than a decade ago, a jury convicted a man Tuesday in the deaths of two women who were found raped and strangled in Rochester.
Christopher Gifford, 32, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Patricia Daggett, 26, and Lachelle Weaver, 24. He was also found guilty of first-degree rape in Daggett's case.
Daggett's body was found Nov. 29, 1995 behind a drug house that had been boarded up and vacated.
Weaver was found with her throat cut in her apartment Aug. 25, 1996.
A DNA sample was obtained from Gifford when he went to prison in 1998 for attempted first-degree rape of another victim.
That sample was entered into a DNA database and later matched to evidence recovered from the scenes.
Gifford faces a sentence of 50 years to life in prison.
The trial for a co-defendant in the case, Howard Wright, 27, is set to begin Friday. Wright was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree rape in the Daggett case.
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Alabama - Police used DNA evidence to arrest a Selma man charged with the 2005 kidnapping and rape of a 20-year-old female, who was snatched down into a creek embankment while jogging at midday and assaulted repeatedly.
Michael Andrew Barlow, 42, was jailed on $40,000 bond over the weekend after results from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences revealed his DNA matched samples taken from the victim. Police said he kept the victim for more than five hours before he fled, leaving her in a wooded area.
"We sent off her rape kit, and this is what came back," said Det. Sandra Washburn, holding up correspondence from the lab. She has worked on the case ever since the weekend after Thanksgiving 2005, when the incident occurred. "I'll sleep better knowing he's off the streets."
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Arizona - A judge Friday denied a request to drop rape charges against Mark Goudeau, the man that police and prosecutors believe to be the "Baseline Killer."
Corwin Townsend, who is defending Goudeau against 20 counts stemming from a September 2005 sexual attack on two sisters in Phoenix, had asked the court to dismiss the case because law enforcement lab technicians had consumed all the DNA evidence that pointed to Goudeau, leaving none for his own experts to test. But after 5 1/2 hours of testimony from the forensic scientists who tested the DNA samples, Judge Andrew Klein ruled that the consumption was necessary for the test and Goudeau's rights were not violated.
Klein scheduled jury selection to begin June 28.
Goudeau is also charged with 74 other counts, which will be tried separately from the rape charges.
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Florida - Boxes of stuffed animals crowded one wall and stacks of American history books and study guides another in the South Fork High School storage room where a 16-year-old student said her teacher coerced her into having sex with him three times in January, according to evidence released Friday in the criminal case against Shawn Trotter.
On the green-blue institutional carpeting, Martin sheriff's investigators found stains below a scuffed table where the girl said she lay during one of those sexual encounters with Trotter, a popular 35-year-old teacher who was married and expecting a baby at the time.
Detectives cut away the carpet and sent it for analysis. In a report dated May 2, a crime lab technician concluded one of the stains was Trotter's seminal fluid mixed with the girl's DNA.
A second stain also proved to be Trotter's seminal fluid, but that was mixed with the DNA of an as-yet-unidentified person. Martin sheriff's detectives are still looking at claims that Trotter was involved with other students, but thus far he is facing three charges of sexual intercourse with a minor involving the 16-year-old.
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New Mexico - Police in Las Vegas, Nev., arrested a 31-year-old man Thursday who was recently linked to a two-year-old Santa Fe rape through a national DNA database.
Raul Gonzales, who was on probation in Las Vegas, was charged with rape and kidnapping after he was arrested Thursday morning, said Capt. Gary Johnson, a Santa Fe police spokesman. He remained in jail in Las Vegas on Thursday awaiting extradition to Santa Fe, he said.
Police, however, do not consider Gonzales a suspect in the string of rapes and attempted rapes of women along the St. Francis Drive corridor since September because he is accused of raping a man in Santa Fe, Johnson said.
The male victim in the case reported he was dancing and drinking alcohol at Swig, a downtown nightclub now called Fusion, on May 22, 2005, Johnson said. The next thing the man remembered was waking up while being raped in the back seat of a car parked in a wooded area, Johnson said.
The alleged rapist said something to the victim about “prison” and threatened him before the victim was able to escape, he said. The victim made his way through the wooded area and to St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, where he was examined by a sexual-assault examination nurse, Johnson said. Johnson did not know the wooded area’s location.
The DNA evidence gathered in the exam was entered into the DNA database and recently turned up a match, Johnson said. Gonzales was located through family members in Santa Fe, Johnson said.
J.R. Haggerty, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Probation and Parole Department, said Thursday that Gonzales was on probation for attempted robbery. He pleaded guilty to the charge last December and was sentenced to three years’ probation.
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Idaho - The Defense has rested in the murder trial of Torey Adamcik. Closing arguments are set to begin on Friday morning.
Earlier on Thursday, attorneys for Torey Adamcik continued their attempt to convince the jury that he did not stab his sixteen-year-old friend and classmate to death.
The Defense displayed graphic pictures of knife wounds on Cassie Stoddart's body, an expert witness testified that only one knife was used in the stabbing.
This is an attempt to rule out Torey as the one who inflicted the wounds.
In a slide show, Dr. Edward Leis pointed out specific characteristics of stab wounds on Cassie's body.
He said each one looks like it comes from a serrated knife.
A folding knife with a serrated edge was found along with other evidence buried in the Black Rock Canyon area.
Idaho State Police's Crime Lab testified earlier in the week that knife had Cassie's DNA on it.
Another non-serrated knife was found in Black Rock Canyon area and ISP did not find DNA on it.
But the state argues that the DNA evidence may be flawed because Adamcik and Draper poured hydrogen peroxide on the evidence and lit it on fire and buried it.
"All these factors do not rule out the folding knife unless someone made a meticulous effort to remove DNA."
A forensic pathologist who examined Cassie's body and testified for the State earlier in the week said that two knives were involved in the stabbing. Now the jury will have to decide who they believe.
Another witness to take the stand on Thursday was a forensic analyst who tested three pieces of evidence for DNA.
Kelly Brockhohn says she ruled out Adamcik as the wearer of a pair of gloves and shirt believed to have been worn the night of the murder.
She also ruled out Adamcik's DNA underneath Cassie's finger nails.
She said Draper's DNA couldn't be ruled out in any of those items.
Interestingly, only one shirt and pair of gloves were tested for DNA by the defense.
The other shirt and pair of gloves were tested by ISP's Crime Lab and the results were inconclusive as to a wearer.
After the Defense rested, the State in rebuttal called a former Pocatello detective. He says the knife without Cassie's DNA on it may have belonged to Brian Draper, because in a search warrant they found it's matching sheath under Draper's bed.
The Defense also called a former crime scene investigator who said there was only one blood trail in the house, signifying one assailant.
The State pointed out that the expert witness never investigated a murder investigation involving knives.
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Ohio - An Ohio prison inmate has been charged with capital murder from his DNA sample, possibly solving a 2003 cold case.
Joseph R. Bowers, 22, an inmate at the Southeastern Correctional Institution in Lancaster was indicted today for aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, rape and kidnapping from the July 2003 slaying of Toni Miller.
Miller, 49, was found stabbed to death in her Far West Side apartment on Pipers Lane near Norton and Hall roads. Columbus police think she was watching TV alone when she was hit on the head and stabbed on July 25, 2003. Her purse was stolen.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said state officials matched Bowers' DNA to evidence from the crime scene after Bowers was sent to prison in September for two drug offenses from Fairfield County. Bowers was sentenced to five years on that case. His DNA also was matched to a shirt discarded at the scene of another robbery that year in a Meijer parking lot, O'Brien said.
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New York - A 38-year-old man apprehended as a result of a DNA sample that he had been required to provide in an unrelated drug case has been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison for the 1996 violent attack of a 30-year-old Richmond Hill beauty salon employee whom he raped and robbed.
“For 10 years, the defendant mistakenly believed that he would never be caught,” said District Attorney Richard A. Brown. “However, as a result of the City’s DNA Backlog Project, which is an initiative that reopens sexual assault cases in which perpetrators are identified by using DNA from rape kits and matching them with the DNA profiles of convicted felony offenders on file with the New York and national DNA databanks, he was unable to escape justice.”
Alex Jackson, 38, who is presently serving a 2 1/2 to 5 year prison term at the Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, New York, was convicted earlier this month of first-degree rape, second-degree burglary and first-degree robbery.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter, who presided at the two-week jury trial, imposed the indeterminate sentence of 22 1/2 - 45 years in prison.
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Florida - DNA has linked the 1993 kidnappings and rapes of two teenage girls in North Miami-Dade to an imprisoned rapist named Solomon Gause, police said Wednesday.
Miami-Dade police charged him with armed sexual battery, armed robbery and kidnapping.
''They're glad he was identified and are on board to prosecute,'' Miami-Dade Detective Bill Nadramia said of the now-adult victims.
Semen samples were taken from both girls at the time.
In 1994, DNA hits linked the cases to the same man. But no sample on file at the time matched.
In November 2006, using updated DNA technology, a state database came back with a hit, Nadramia said.
Gause was charged after another DNA sample taken in prison came back positive.
Gause, 42, served five years after he was arrested for a rape and kidnapping later in 1993, records show. In 2002, he was convicted for sexually assaulting a minor younger than 12 years of age.
Nadramia, whose cold-case sexual battery squad is reviewing some 800 cases, conducted a prison interview with Gause, whose tattooes include the nicknames Mr. G, Mr. Cool and Superman. ''He denied it,'' Nadramia said.
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South Carolina - The Richland County Sheriff's Department has announced new developments in regards to an arson fire that killed two people on May 30th.
They say DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a suspect, Julian Whatley, 25, of Columbia. Police say he was arrested at his mother's house.
Officers found two people dead in a burned mobile home, and another was injured in that fire. Forty-five-year-old Crystal Ferguson and, her daughter, nine-year-old Hillary Wright, have been identified as the two killed in the fire.
Authorities say DNA evidence has linked Whatley to two other sexual assaults that occurred late April and late May. One took place on April 25 on Beatty Downs Road and the other on May 26 on Kay Street.
Sheriff Lott says all three victims positively identified Whatley as their assailant.
Whatley has been charged with two counts of murder, one count of arson first degree, one count of assault and battery with intent to kill, one count of burglary first degree, three counts of criminal sexual assault and three counts of kidnapping.
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Texas - Investigators said bones found in a barrel on Lake Buchanan matched a man missing out of Travis County.
Forensic experts said they believe the two elements that helped them with their task hurt someone else's chances of hiding this crime.
In September, lower lake levels revealed a battered 55-gallon drum near the shoreline.
Authorities found a man's skeletal remains and jewelry encased in concrete.
Burnet authorities handed over clues leading to a Travis County missing person's case.
A forensic specialist on the case said the concrete helped preserve and match DNA.
The test identified Charles Maynard Wyatt, 62, who suffered trauma to the head and face.
"They would never think it would be found," said nearby resident Loretta Gahagan. "The second thing if it were found, there'd be nothing there for anybody to identify, because in the 90s we didn't have all this technology."
Travis County has handed over the case to Burnet County and Texas Rangers.
It took the University of North Texas Health Science Center nearly nine months to get the DNA results.
Officials there said they handle hundreds of cases from all over the country, and the long wait is not unusual because of the volume of testing they handle.
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Topic: Researchers Demonstrate Novel Method For Studying The DNA Binding Of Small Molecules
Boston, MA - Northeastern University professor Mark C. Williams and graduate student Ioana Vladescu have discovered a novel method for studying the DNA binding of small molecules with unprecedented accuracy. Their paper, titled “Quantifying force-dependent and zero-force DNA intercalation by single-molecule stretching,” has been published in the June 2007 issue of the prestigious Nature Methods.
Because molecules that bind through intercalation (a type of binding) may interfere with important biochemical processes in replicating cells, this method may be a useful tool for rational drug design targeting cancer, AIDS and other diseases.
“In order to develop new drugs to treat cancer and other diseases, scientists need to better understand if and how these drugs will bind to DNA,” says Williams. “This new method allows us to examine intercalation in unprecedented and exquisite detail.”
Williams and colleagues used single DNA molecule stretching to investigate DNA intercalation by ethidium and three ruthenium complexes. By measuring ligand-induced DNA elongation at different ligand concentrations, they determined the binding constant and site size as a function of force. Both quantities depend strongly on force and, in the limit of zero force, converge to the known bulk solution values, when available.
This approach allowed the team, comprised of Williams, Vladescu and Northeastern colleague Micah McCauley, along with Megan Nunez from Mt. Holyoke College, and Ioulia Rouzina from the University of Minnesota to distinguish the intercalative mode of ligand binding from other binding modes and allowed characterization of intercalation with binding constants ranging over almost six orders of magnitude, including ligands that do not intercalate under experimentally accessible bulk solution conditions. As ligand concentration increased, the
DNA stretching curves saturated at the maximum amount of ligand intercalation. The results showed that the applied force partially relieves normal intercalation constraints. The team also characterized the flexibility of intercalator-saturated dsDNA for the first time.
Williams and his colleagues are continuing their research and plan to start testing actively used cancer drugs in the near-term.
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Events and conferences for 2007 that may of interest to you include:
AFDAA (Association of DNA Analysts and Administrators) Conference – August 2-3, 2007 – Austin, TX. Contact Joseph Warren 817-735-5107
Web site: www.AFDAA.org
18th International Symposium on Human Identification - October 1-4, 2007
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel - Hollywood, California
Web site: www.promega.com/geneticsymp18/
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