
Al-Karkh University of Science organizes a student festival on the occasion of World DNA Day
The Department of Forensic Evidence at the College of Science, Karkh University of Science, organized a student festival on the occasion of the World DNA Day corresponding to 25/4 of each year, in the presence of the President of Karkh University, Prof. Dr. Thamer Abdul-Amir Hassan, the Dean of the College of Science, Dr. Buraq Yahya Kazem, and the Head of the Forensic Evidence Department. Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Basit and a number of the teachers of the DNA Center at Al-Nahrain University and a number of students from the Forensic Evidence Applications Department at Al-Salam University College, as well as professors and students from the Department of Forensic Evidence, Medical Physics and Microbiology in our college.
The festival included a number of speeches on this occasion, where the President of the University spoke about the stages of creating the Forensic Evidence Department in our college and the importance of the World DNA Day, and praised the role of the Forensic Evidence Department in reviving them today with their first festival.
While the speech of the Dean of the College of Science included the importance of the specialization of forensic evidence and investigations and its role in detecting the perpetrators, as well as the role of the newly created department in achieving a number of successes despite the short period of its creation.
As for the speech of the Head of the Forensic Evidence Department, he touched on the importance of the day of DNA, the beginnings of the emergence of the genome, the most important scientists who discovered it, and the qualitative leap in its discovery in several scientific fields.
The student festival also included a number of lectures given by a group of students. The student, Muhammad Haider Jassim, gave a lecture and an introductory brief on the World DNA Day. The student, Musa Kazem Mujahem, gave a lecture on DNA analysis, and the student Ronak Kaiser Tayeb gave a lecture in English on the vital features and their role. In criminal evidence, while Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Jawad Khazal gave a lecture entitled the relationship of some genes to violence and criminal behavior in humans.
Before the end of the festival, the attendees, accompanied by the president of the university, moved to the opening of the scientific and artistic exhibition in which the students participated with a set of references in the field of forensic evidence, models that mimic DNA, the mechanism of sample extraction, an applied crime scene, as well as a student art exhibition regarding some of the artworks embroidered by the students.
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