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Access the Experts: Dario Ghersi

In this installment, Ghersi answers: “How do the police use ancestry DNA databases to solve crimes?”

  • published: 2021/07/02
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Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

In This Installment of Access the Experts

School of Interdisciplinary Informatics Associate Professor Dario Ghersi, Ph.D., answers the question: “How do the police use ancestry DNA databases to solve crimes?”

About Ghersi

An expert in bioinformatics related fields, Ghersi holds research interests in cancer genomics, structural bioinformatics, and small molecule bioinformatics.

He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University from 2010 to 2014, where he worked on large-scale genome sequencing data. In 2011 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation. He joined the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, and currently serves as the bioinformatics program curriculum chair.

Access the Experts

Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

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