DNA expert opens Windward CC’s chemistry forum series – UH System Current News

David Haymer

DNA expert and Hawaii Innocence Project consultant David Haymer will discuss new methods of DNA analysis as part of the Community Forum in Chemistry series at Windward Community College on Thursday, September 14, 12 p.m. at Hale Imiloa 111.

Haymer, who obtained his doctoral degree from Purdue University, is a professor of cell and molecular biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine. With more than 25 years of experience with DNA analysis, he is the DNA consultant of the Hawaii chapter of the Innocence Project.

The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization aimed to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through the use of new DNA-based methods. DNA evidence is now commonly introduced in criminal investigations by both prosecuting and defense attorneys.

The forum is free and open to the public. Parking is free.

The Community Forum in Chemistry is co-sponsored by Windward Community College and the American Chemical Society-Hawaii Section.

For more information, call Letty Colmenares, professor of chemistry at Windward CC at (808) 236-9120.

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