AUSTRALIA–INDONESIA JOINT SYMPOSIUM IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jakarta, 13-17 September 2006

DNA forensic identification in terrorism's investigation
Dr Herawati Sudoyo, Eijkman Institute

Dr Herawati Sudoyo was first involved in the application of DNA Identification in terrorisms case when she was asked to assist in the identification of the bomber of the Australian Embassy in 2004. She is a medical graduate of the University of Indonesia and received her PhD from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (1990) for her work on the mitochondrial pathology, which contributed to the early development of the field of mitochondrial medicine of today.

Dr Sudoyo is a founding member of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, the premier molecular biology research institute of Indonesia and principal investigator of two of its major research groups; on Energy Transduction, Disease and Ageing, and on the Human Genome Diversity of the Southeast Asian archipelago. In relation to the latter she has established a large database of mtDNA sequence diversity, and more recently a DNA CODIS database. She is a member of the Pan Asian SNP Initiative, a consortium that aim at establishing a database of Asian SNP diversity based on the 50K SNP chip from Affymetrix.

Dr Sudoyo is an elected member of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN) since 1999, and was elected to the Indonesian Academy of Sciences in 2003. She is now the head of the newly established DNA Identification Unit of the Eijkman Institute.