Conference Patron:

Márton Lontai
director general of the HIFS

We would like to announce and cordially invite you to the 12th Haploid Markers Conference (HM2023) that will held in Budapest, Hungary. Because of Covid, the meeting was unfortunately postponed from 2020 first to 2021 than to 2022, but now we are very happy to finally be able to hold it in 2023.

HM2023 will be taking place in Budapest, one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. The previous conferences have taken place in the magnificent cities of Berlin, Porto, Innsbruck, Ancona, Brussels, and Bydgoszcz. In the history of Budapest, the year 1872 stands out as a milestone, for it was then that the three separate settlements of Pest, Buda and Óbuda (literally "Old" Buda) were united into one city. Its origins can be traced to the Celtic people who occupied the plains of Hungary from the 4th century BC, until its conquest by the Roman Empire who established the fortress and town of Aquincum on the bank of Danube, today’s Budapest around AD 100, and the subsequent arrival of the Hungarian Conquerors 895 AD.
Budapest officially became the capital city of Hungary in 1873 and underwent rapid growth in size and eminence. This was the city's golden age, and coincided with the Hungarian millennial celebrations in 1896 when the continental Europe's first underground was opened. 

The HIFS is the only institution established for forensic expert activities in Hungary, covering the entire country and under the control of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences located in Budapest, one of the most experienced in studies of haploid markers in Hungary, will be hosting the Conference.

The venue is Hotel Hungaria City Centre in the heart of the Budapest. 

Under the motto
Application of haploid markers – innovation and reflection
we want to invite papers –among others- on the following topics: 

• forensic application of the MPS technology, including the capture approach
• bringing Y chromosome and mtDNA haplogrouping on a new level using MPS
• haploid markers in the courtroom
• adjustment of forensic frequency databases to the needs of science and law enforcement 
• model-based statistics to evaluate the weight of evidence for haploid markers
• guidelines and recommendations concerning the interpretation of haploid markers results 
• ancestry and genealogical analyses using haploid markers
• matches and mismatches between genetic, linguistic, and geographical histories
• advanced statistical tools for population genetics analyses
• identification of human remains in a forensic, archaeological, and humanitarian context
• strengthening scholarly freedom and scholarly responsibility in the forensic genetics field
• testing evidence in sexual assault cases
• rapidly mutation Y-STR markers
• distinguished casework examples

As in the conferences before renowned plenary speakers will be invited to share their views with us.
The HM2023 has attractive pre-congress and training events.

We hope to see you in Budapest!

Sincerely 
Horolma Pamjav (HIFS), Ágota Dobos (HIFS), Lutz Roewer (ILM Berlin) and Walther Parson (ILM Innsbruck)