• Principles of Quality Assurance,
• Current industry standards for quality systems in forensic DNA,
• Creating, maintaining and improving quality systems, and
• Procedures to locate, evaluate and process information with an emphasis on forensic DNA.

Knowledge of statistics and forensic biology

• Understand principles of Quality Assurance
• Apply these to develop fault free DNA analyses of biological fluids
• Understand use of Web to obtain information
• Able to evaluate and apply information

TWGDAM 1995. Guidelines for a Quality Assurance Program for DNA Analysis. Crime Laboratory Digest, 22: 21-50 (1995).

The evaluation of DNA Evidence. NRC. National Academy Press, Washington DC 1996.

ANSI/ASQC Q2-1991 Quality management and Quality Systems Elements for Laboratories - Guidelines. American Society for Quality Control, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1991.

ISO/IEC Guide 25 General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and testing Laboratories. American Association for Laboratory Accreditation, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Ratcliff, Thomas A. The Laboratory Quality Assurance System. Van Nostrand Reinhold NY, 1990

Laboratory Accreditation Manual, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, 1998