8h30-9h: Conference registration

9h-9h15: Welcome message (E. Jurkevitch)

9h15-9h45: General overview of soil forensics (L. Dawson)

9h45-10h: Presentation of the MiSAFE project (E. Jurkevitch)

10h-10h30: Coffee Break

10h30-11h: Sampling: number of samples, pooling and statistical procedures (T. Freitag/M. Brewer)

11h-11h30: DNA extraction methods and their impact on bacterial diversity (P. Robe/S.Demanèche)

11h30-12h: Technologies to analyze DNA samples (P. Simonet/Z. Pasternak)

12h-12h30: Soil discrimination: the biological dimension (Z. Pasternak/E. Jurkevitch)

12h30-14h00: Buffet lunch

14h-14h30: Soil discrimination: the database and bioinformatics dimension (D. Miller/L. Schauser)

14:30-15h: Close to the real thing: Analysis of a Mock Crime Scene and of a Round Robin, blind soil analysis (L. Dawson/T. Freitag)

15h-15h30: SOP and Legal aspects (JC Cordero/D. Auchie)

15h30-16h: Coffee Break

16h-17h: Round Table–the Next Step: from the research lab to the forensic lab