Jack Ballantyne, Ph.D.
Prior to entering academia Dr. Ballantyne was an operational forensic biochemist for eighteen years and worked as such in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the US. His most recent operational appointment was as the Supervisor of the Biological Sciences Section of the Suffolk County Crime Lab, Long Island, New York where he was responsible for the management and operation of three units, a conventional Serology Unit, a DNA-PCR Unit and a DNA-RFLP Unit. He has been actively involved in the issues of laboratory standards and accreditation at the national and state levels, serving on the federal DNA Advisory Board and National DNA Review Panel and the New York State DNA Sub-committee. He possesses a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, an M.Sc. in Forensic Science from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His current research interests include DNA damage assessment and in vitro repair systems, the biochemistry of the dried state, RNA applications in forensic science, Y-chromsome biomarker development, single cell analysis and phenotype prediction.