Members of IFSA’s Scientific Advisory Board have agree to provide scientific advice on forensic evidence, including review of court transcripts, to IFSA and to persons and groups IFSA is cooperating with subject to the constraints created by potential conflicts of interest.

Jason Gilder is a Systems Engineer at Forensic Bioinformatics, Inc.  Dr. Gilder is the primary author of the Genophiler(R) automated software analysis system.  He has used Genophiler(R) to analyze the electronic data in more than 700 DNA cases over the past six years.  Dr. Gilder has provided expert testimony and gives several talks a year at CLE seminars. He is an active researcher who has published several articles on forensic DNA interpretation.

Keith Inman is an Assistant Professor of Forensic Science at California State University, East Bay, and a Senior Forensic Scientist at Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc.  He has co-authored An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, a book that has become the preeminent reference for both attorneys and crime laboratories, and The Principles and Practice of Criminalistics, a book aimed at practicing criminalists. He has worked in both private and public crime laboratories throughout the state of California.

Irv Kornfield is Professor of Biology and Molecular Forensics at the University of Maine.  He founded and directs the Molecular Forensics Laboratory, a facility that processes wildlife casework for State and regional enforcement agencies using DNA-based methodologies.  In addition to providing support for the prosecutorial community, he regularly reviews DNA casework for public defenders.  Kornfield has participated in several taxonomic innovations and been recognized in 2004 with Austrocuma kornfieldi(Crustacea: Cumacea).

William C. Thompson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine.  He has a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  Thompson was a member of the “dream team” that represented O.J. Simpson during his 1995 criminal trial.  He has also assisted in several important journalistic investigations of crime labs, including the investigation that exposed problems in the notorious Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory.  It was Thompson who discovered the DNA typing error that falsely incriminated a Houston man named Josiah Sutton.