REGISTRATION ARE OPEN! – 25/04/2025 – Forensic Scientific Symposium of the SRMLB-KBGGG

🚨 Join us for the SRMLB – KBGGG Scientific Afternoon! 🚨

📅 Date: April 25, 2025 | ⏰ 13:00 – 18:00
📍 Location: Auditorium J. Van Der Eecken, Hogenheuvelcollege – 3000 Leuven

🎤 Keynote speakers:
🔬 Prof. Dieter Deforce, PhD – Director of the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (UGent) & DNA expert at Eurofins
🆔 Frédérique Dejardin – Disaster Victim Identification (DVI Belgium)

🔍 Explore forensic sciences: pathology, toxicology, anthropology, imaging & more!
🤝 Network with experts & researchers—whether or not you work in forensics!
📜 INAMI/RIZIV Accreditation requested!

💰 Registration fee:
🎓 Members & students: 30€ | Non-members: 50€

🍷 Closing Reception – 18:00
Let’s wrap up the day with an informal gathering to exchange ideas and connect!

📝 Register by: April 18, 2025
🔗 Sign up now: Registration Form

📩 Contact us: kbggg.srmlb@gmail.com

📢 Spread the word & invite your colleagues! 🚀

GALF meeting

Cher.e.s collègues,

Le 35e colloque du Groupement des Anthropologistes de Langue française (GALF) se tiendra à Bruxelles du 16 au 19 octobre 2024.

La date limite de soumission des propositions de communication est fixée au 5 juillet.

Les inscriptions au colloque se font séparément et ouvriront bientôt.

Vous trouverez de plus amples informations à l’adresse suivante :

https://www.naturalsciences.be/fr/science/actualites/colloque-du-galf-2024

Bien cordialement,

Caroline Polet

(pour le comité d’organisation)

📣 SAVE THE DATE – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS📣

Forensic Scientific Afternoon

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 25𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐5 – KU Leuven

On behalf of the board, we are delighted to invite you to the 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦, scheduled to take place on 25th april in Huis De Munter, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven.

Abstracts for 15-20 min oral presentations (in english) are invited from all disciplines and should be sent to bram.bekaert@uzleuven.be

Registration for the meeting will open soon!

More details will be provided through e-mail and our website, so do save the date in your diaries to make sure you will be able to attend the conference.

INAMI-RIZIV accreditation has been requested

It promises to be another exciting afternoon!

Hope to see you all there!

General Assembly

Our society will be holding its annual General Assembly on the 19th January 2024 at the faculty Club in Leuven.

Program:

  • 18u00 – 18u30: Reception
  • 18u30 – 19u00: Keynote presentation by Mr. Frédéric Thiebaut, lawyer at the bar of Mechelen
  • 19u00 – 20u00: General Assembly
  • 20h00 – 21u00: Diner
  • 21u00 – 21u30: Prof Dr Samuel Leistedt on Behavioural sciences and Terrorism
  • 21u30 – … : Dessert and digestives
  • Registration for the meeting (including diner) costs €120 for (candidate) members, while students/medical trainees get a 50% discount and only pay €60.

Free parking at the Faculty Club with code 2069#.

You can register using this link. Registration deadline is 12th January 2024 at 17h.

Candidate members can still apply and should send their CV’s and motivation letter to bram.bekaert@uzleuven.be before the registration deadline.

QUALITY ASSURANCE SYMPOSIUM – December 15th – Brussels

 It is with tremendous pride that the board can present the final program of the first ever Quality Assurance Symposium that we are organising on friday 15th December 2023 at Hof ter Musschen, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.

This is the first time that your society in collaboration with the Belgian and Luxembourg toxicologists organise an event and we are convinced this will be a popular one, so do book early as places are strictly limited (early registration till 31st october, late registration till 30th november).

The interactive break-out sessions are focused on the practical aspects of quality assurance management and will therefore be organised in different languages (NL, FR and EN).
We also invite you to attend the dinner after the symposium to get to know the speakers and other participants in a more informal setting.

Program
09u00 – 09u30: Keynote by Tom Hoorens, Advisor at the cabinet of the Vice-prime minister and the minister of Justice
09u30 – 10u00: Elke Van Rossen, Accreditation Manager at BELAC
10u30 – 10u30: Johan Guns, Head of QA and Regulatory Affairs Medical Laboratories and Tissue Establishments, UZ Brussel
11u00 – 11u30: Fabien Julemont, Quality Manager, Federal Judicial Police
11u30 – 12u00: Wim Van de Voorde, Professor at KU Leuven and Head of the Department for Forensic Medicine, UZ Leuven

13u00 – 14u45: Break-out sessions:
1. Els Dequeker, Quality assurance manager UZ Leuven – Professor at KU Leuven. Topic: managing quality assurance in practice (NL)

2. Didier Meuwly, Principal Scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Forensic Biometrics Chair at the University of Twente. Topic: a new ISO-norm for forensic science: ISO 21043 (EN)

15u15 – 17u00: Break-out sessions:
1. Anne Leriche, Scientific consultant at the Public Prosecutors office – course leader at ULB. Topic: Comparison of ISO norms in practice (FR)

2. Hedwig Stepman, Clinical Biologist at UZ Gent. Topic: IVDR in practice (EN)

17u00 Reception
18u00 Dinner at Hof ter Musschen

Registration costs:

Early bird deadline is 31/10/2023 :
Member BLT/KBGGG-SRMLB : €135 (without dinner) – €225 (includes dinner)
Non-member : €150 (without dinner) – €250 (includes dinner)

Late stage deadline is 30/11/2023.
Member BLT/KBGGG-SRMLB : €180 (without dinner) – €260 (includes dinner)
Non-member : €200 (without dinner) – €300 (includes dinner)

Please register HERE (confirmation after registration and payment).

IGO and RIZIV/INAMI point have been applied for and are pending approval.