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11-DNA Laboratory Forms

This set of laboratory forms is used for DNA analysis and reporting of results for disputed parentage.

  1. CASE APPLICATION FORM (Form A)
    Registration No. O2007-133
  2. UNDERTAKING
    Registration No.: O2007-134
  3. UNDERTAKING (DNA Paternity Test for Private Purposes Only)
    Registration No.: O2007-135
  4. REQUESTING PARTY (Form 001)
    Registration No.: O2007-136
  5. SAMPLING FORM (Form 002) Version 2.1, Modified March 2006
    Registration No.: O2007-137
  6. LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION Sampling from minors (Form 003A)
    Registration No.: O2007-138
  7. RELEASE OF REPORT (Form 003B)
    Registration No.: O2007-139
  8. CHAIN OF CUSTODY (Form 004)
    Registration No.: O2007-140
  9. CHAIN OF EVIDENCE FORM (Laboratory Analysis)
    Registration No.: O2007-141
  10. CASE REPORT CHECKLIST (Parentage Testing)
    Registration No.: O2007-142
  11. OUTSIDE SAMPLING KIT
    Registration No.: O2007-143

Date of Registration: 30 March 2007

Date of Issuance of Certificate of Copyright Registration and Deposit: 19 April 2007

About the Authors:

  • Maria Corazon A. De Ungria is the present Head of the DNA Analysis Laboratory of Natural Sciences Research Institute (NSRI), where she manages research projects and extension services in the laboratory such as promoting the development of forensic DNA technology in the country.
  • Gayvelline C. Calacal is a University Research Associate at the DNA Analysis Laboratory of the Natural Sciences Research Institute (NSRI). Some of her research involvements were on validating forensic laboratory procedures, conducting training workshops on basic DNA analysis for the local scientific community, and performing DNA analysis on several forensic and paternity cases, among others.
  • Miriam Ruth M. Dalet is also a University Research Associate at the DNA Analysis Laboratory of the Natural Sciences Research Institute (NSRI). As part of the DNA analysts team she helps ensure the proper documentation of the laboratory’s undertakings.
March 9, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post

UP Diliman’s DNA Analysis Laboratory Head Bags 1st Prize in the 2009 Regional Young Women Scientist Award

The University of the Philippines, home of outstanding researches in the country, once again claimed the limelight in the recently-held 2009 Scopus Regional Young Women Researcher Awarding Ceremony with the theme “Bridging the Science Gender Gap in Developing Countries” held at the National Science Centre and Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr. Maria Corazon Abogado De Ungria, Head of the DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman won the first prize awarded under the Life Science Category. She shared the recognition with Dr. Mai Thi Quynh Le from National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam.

Dr. Corazon De Ungria (2nd from the left) and Dr. Mai Thi Quynh Le (3rd from the left) receive the 2009 Scopus Regional Young Women Scientist Award from Dr. Lilia Margarita Alvarez Diaz (left), Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) Vice President for Latin America (Courtesy of www.bic.org.my)

Dr. De Ungria presented her research work entitled “Development of Forensic DNA Technology in the Philippines” during the awarding ceremony and symposium. The 2009 Scopus Regional Young Women Researcher Award was given to Dr. De Ungria in recognition of her outstanding contributions in forensic applications and molecular anthropological studies in Philippines. Among these studies are the following:

1.    The establishment of Philippine population databases for forensic applications and in a molecular anthropological context
In 2006, Dr. De Ungria joined the PanAsia SNP consortium, which has members from different Asian countries who have contributed to the multi-center study on genetic diversity in Asia. Dr. De Ungria worked in generating over 5000 autosomal SNP data from several groups of Philippine Negritos and other ethnic populations of the Philippines using the microchip technology from Affymetrix.

2.    The promulgation of the Rule on DNA Evidence with the inclusion of the section on post-conviction DNA Testing
Dr. De Ungria became the head of the DNA Analysis Laboratory at the time when the Philippines still had the Death Penalty. For more than six years, she worked actively with the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), a group of private lawyers who provided free legal assistance to indigent death row inmates. The objective of this collaboration was to assess the feasibility of post-conviction DNA testing which at that time was not yet an available procedure. She was also in the technical panel that formulated the Rule on DNA Evidence which was submitted to the Philippine Supreme Court for approval.

3.    The adoption of a systematic system for handling sexual assault evidence by the Child Protection Network
Dr. De Ungria is actively involved in helping the Child Protection Network (CPU-Net), a network of different government and private hospitals that have a special section dedicated to helping children who have suffered physical abuse. One major problem in the collection of biological evidence from victims of sexual abuse is the absence of a sexual assault investigation kit (SAIK). Together with medical doctors of CPU, Dr. De Ungria and her team validated and subsequently introduced into the market, a prototype SAIK, which has been adopted by hospitals of the CPU-Net.

Dr. De Ungria finished her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Biology degree at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Microbiology at the University of New South Wales also in Sydney, Australia. She started working at the DNA Analysis Laboratory of the University of the Philippines in 1999. In the same year, Dr. De Ungria joined the Third World Organization of Women in Science (TWOWS) (see http://twows.ictp.it) in order to meet other young women scientists in the region. In 2006, Dr. De Ungria won the Outstanding Young Scientist Award given by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and The Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries (TWAS) (see http://www.twas.org/). In 2007, Dr. De Ungria was amongst the first batch of TWAS Affiliate Fellows after being chosen by the TWAS Regional Office for East Asia and Southeast Asia. This was the first year that TWAS welcomed young scientists to be part of the academy in order to encourage young researchers to actively participate in promoting science in their own respective regions.

In 2009, the Young Women Researcher Award was jointly organized by TWAS, TWOWS, the Malaysian National Science Centre and SCOPUS-Elsevier. The aim of the organizers were to acknowledge and strengthen women representation and their technological leadership, particularly in their efforts and contributions in achieving research excellence. Other categories for the awards were medicine, engineering and technology and agricultural science. (http://asia.elsevier.com/elsevierdnn/EventsConferences/YoungWomenResearcherAward09/tabid/1191/Default.aspx).

Winners received a certificate and cash prize.

By Gracious Romero

March 1, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

UP System’s 2010 First Call for Proposals for Research and Creative Work Grant

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) is now accepting proposals for the Research and Creative Work Grant of the UP System.  Faculty members and Research, Extension and Professional Staff (REPS) who are in active service in UP Diliman or UP Extension Program in Pampanga are eligible to submit their proposals.

Submitted proposals should be in six (6) hard copies, and their soft copy for e-mailing to:

upsgnse.ovcrd(at)up.edu.ph OR
upsg.nse.ovcrd(at)gmail.com
(for those coming from the natural sciences and engineering)

upsgssh.ovcrd(at)up.edu.ph OR
upsg.ssh.ovcrd(at)gmail.com
(for those coming from the social sciences and humanities)

Proposals will be reviewed by a technical panel for endorsement to the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs (OVPAA).

Please click HERE for application form and guidelines.

Deadline for proposal submission is on March 1, 2010.

For inquiries, contact OVCRD at telephone 981-8500 local 4050 (voip), telefax 927-2568 or the above email addresses.

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Call for 2010 Research Proposals under Outright Research Grants: Deadline Extended until March 15

Deadline for submission is extended until March 15, 2010.

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Call for Papers: Musika Jornal

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The UP Center for Ethnomusicology invites scholars, thinkers and music practitioners to submit scientific papers or critical essays on the theme Music & Ritual.

MUSIKA JORNAL is a refereed scholarly periodical that saw the publication of three issues during the incumbency of Dr. Jose Maceda as Chair of the Department of Asian Music in the late 1970’s (77,78,79).  Its revival issue was launched in January 2008 featuring articles on performance and performance theories.

For the coming issue, Musika Jornal 7, submissions must follow this format:

  • Language in English or Filipino (with short summary in English)
  • Not less than 6 pages and not more than 30 pages of text
  • Double-spaced, 12pts, 1.5″ margin all-over
  • Text and bibliography formatted according to the Chicago Manual Style, MS Word 2007
  • All annotations must be reflected as endnotes
  • Accompanying pictures must be properly labeled/captioned, resolution in 300-600 dpi jpeg, and source properly acknowledged
  • Name of transcribers, annotators and other collaborators in the article should be properly recognized in the submissions

Submission should include:

  • A bibliography of all sources quoted or mentioned in the paper
  • A glossary of musical/technical terms appearing in the text, with short (1 phrase or 1 sentence) definitions
  • An abstract of no more than 150 words
  • A short biography of the author (not more than 100 words)
  • Hardcopy and electronic file

All contributors shall receive token honoraria, 5 complimentary copies for major articles and 1 complimentary copy for reviews.

Author shall secure permission for all copyrighted materials that will be included in the article/s.

Musika Jornal 7 is intended to be launched in November 2010. Deadline for submission is June 25, 2010.

For submissions/queries:

U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology
Rm 220 Abelardo Hall, College of Music
University of the Philippines, Diliman
1101 Quezon City, Philippines
Email: upethno@gmail.com
Telefax: (+632) 9257139

March 1, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Call for Papers/Presentations for an International Conference on Postcolonial Praxis

Postcolonial Praxis: Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South

July 21-23, 2010

Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center), College of Arts & Letters
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines

Through this conference, we invite participants from other parts of the Philippines and from other former colonies /countries in the “Global South” (i.e., “underdeveloped , “developing”, “Third World”, decolonizing societies)  to re-examine and to re-territorialize  Anglo-American, English, American, French, German, Dutch, Hispanic, Latin American  Studies, programs and projects.  The conference aims to provide a venue for the construction of a general  programmatic of postcolonial knowledge-production and other postcolonial cultural practices which can be disseminated through formal educational institutions as curricula and courses; informal/alternative educational groups; professional organizations; mass media;  computer-aided technologies, and through cultural networks. To be engaged in this process are hundreds of scholars from the humanities and social sciences, teachers, creative writers, journalists and broadcast  media practitioners , studio, visual and performance artists, architects, design specialists .

The time is right to re-examine the colonial and neocolonial pasts as functions of both particular and world-wide geopolitical and temporal conditions in order to limn possible futurities for cultural discourses (knowledge production) and cultural practices as forms of local/ national/ regional resistance to neocolonialism and global capitalism.

Conference Sub-Themes: (Panel & Papers/Multimedia Presentations may revolve along these sub-thematics)
•    Postcolonial Writing/ Visual Arts / Performance Arts and the New Technologies (computer-based)
•    Recuperating Colonial Languages (English / French / Spanish / German / Dutch) in the Global South
•    Re-territorializing English/ American/ French/ Spanish/ German/ Dutch Language & Literature Studies in the Global South
•    Problematizing the “National” in National Cultural Practices (e.g., national language, national theater, national treasures, national artists, etc)
•    Issues and Concerns of a National Language in a Decolonizing Society
•    Dialectics of Native Authenticity & Cultural Hybridity
•    Politics of “Otherness”, “Politics of Othering” (gendered, ethnic, class, religious, and historiographic othering ) and Postcolonial Responses
•    Nation Formation and Postcolonial Cultural Studies
•    Understanding / Re-sematicizing the Role of the  “the Folk” / “Millenarian”/ “Cargo Cults” in the Histories of Nation Formation
•    History and Counter Memory or Alternative Historiographies in / for Postcolonial/ Cultural Studies
•    Problems of Representation (e.g., essentialism vs ghettoism; “strategic essentialism”; tokenism)
•    Politics of Location (ethnic, class, race, gender, religion, generation, etc ) and Cultural Praxis
•    Postcolonial Politics and Climate Change
•    Postcolonialism and Critiques of Disciplinary Domain Assumptions / Theoretical Legacies / Subject Areas / Methodologies Towards Postcolonial Cultural     Studies (multidisciplinal, situated, contextualized against global flows)

Each panel (of at most 4 participants) will be allotted 1 hour and 30 minutes with Open Forum.  A paper reader and/or multimedia presentor will be given 15 minutes each.

Please submit panel and paper/multimedia proposals to the Conference Convenor: “Professor Priscelina Patajo-Legasto” < // pplegasto@gmail.com// This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it // >.

Deadline for submission of panel and paper/multimedia presentation abstracts will be on March 30, 2010. Final Conference schedules and other information (conference registration, travel and accommodation details) will be posted on April 15, 2010.

Plenary speakers include Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto of National University of Singapore and University Professor Emeritus Gemino H. Abad of University of the Philippines-Diliman.

This conference is being organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines-Diliman in celebration of its centennial anniversary (1010-2010); with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Philippine Studies Association (PSA), the Office of the President, UP System and the Office of the Chancellor-UP Diliman.

February 1, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Call for Papers: Philippine Management Review 2009 Issue

The Philippine Management Review is now accepting papers for publication in its 2009 issue. Papers may be in the form of theoretical or policy analysis, or empirical investigations of concerns in the areas of finance and management.

Deadline for submission is on 30 March 2010.

Click HERE for more details.

Please submit papers electronically to Issue Editors:

Sergio S. Cao, PhD
Department of Accounting and Finance
College of Business Administration
University of the Philippines-Diliman
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OR

Ma. Fe Cadiz-Dyball, PhD
Faculty of Business and Economics
Department of Accounting and Finance
Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia

// mdyball@efs.mq.edu.au

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2010 Lecture Series: Dimensions of Migration in the US and their Impact on American Society

The American Studies Association of the Philippines, Inc. invites everyone to the first offering of their lecture series for this year on “Of Narratives and Expressions: Migration and American Literature” which will be held on February 6, 2010, 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the University Conference Center, Far Eastern University, Manila.

Click here to download the program.

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