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Dr. Allan Tereba has made significant contributions in the area of forensics over the last 10 years. He helped develop the first 16 locus single amplification multiplex currently used in DNA identification, and he developed and patented an automatable chemistry for obtaining pure DNA from very contaminated forensic casework samples. This chemistry also delivered a constant amount of DNA from various database samples, eliminating the need for DNA quantification. Using this chemistry in collaboration with the Virginia Division of Forensic Sciences, he developed the first successful high-throughput, automated DNA purification system for casework samples. Additional chemistries and hardware were developed for high throughput processing of both casework and database samples at all stages of the process.Dr. Tereba currently consults with various forensic groups. He was formerly at Promega Corporation where he developed products in nucleic acid synthesis and signal transduction and later joined their forensic group. Dr. Tereba was also a faculty member in the Department of Virology and Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where he studied the chromosomal location of endogenous retroviruses and oncogenes and the chromosomal abnormalities and amplification mechanism of the N-myc oncogene associated with neuroblastoma.Dr. Tereba earned his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Indiana University and his Ph. D. in Biochemistry at the University of Washington. He spent two years studying retroviruses as a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Peter Vogt at the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California. | 