Dr. Greg Hampikian is a nationally known DNA expert and professor of forensic biology. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he serves as the Director of the Idaho Innocence Project and the DNA Expert on the Georgia Innocence Project Board. Dr. Hampikian’s scientific work has been published in journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national conferences and offers workshops and presentations for schools across Idaho. Dr. Hampikian is also co-author of “Exit to Freedom,” which chronicles Calvin Johnson’s 17 year battle to prove his innocence, and ultimately his exoneration by DNA evidence. In 2012, Dr. Hampikian was named a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
Articles
Dynamic Passivation with BSA Overcomes LTCC Mediated Inhibition of PCR (with Jason Besecker and Kenneth A. Cornell), Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2013)
The increasing use of low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) for the fabrication of biological microfluidic...
Nullomer Derived Anticancer Peptides (NulloPs): Differential Lethal Effects on Normal and Cancer Cells in vitro (with Abdelkrim Alileche, Jayita Goswami, William Bourland, and Mike Davis), Peptides (2012)
We demonstrate the first use of the nullomer (absent sequences) approach to drug discovery and...
When DNA Won't Work (with Rick Visser), Idaho Law Review (2012)
Within the criminal justice system, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) evidence has often been heralded as the...
A Magnetic Shape Memory Micropump: Contact-Free, and Compatible with PCR and Human DNA Profiling (with K. Ullakko, L. Wendell, A. Smith, and P. Müllner), Smart Materials and Structures (2012)
Magnetic shape memory (MSM) Ni–Mn–Ga elements are relatively new materials with a variety of remarkable...
Morphology and Phylogeny of a New Woodruffiid Ciliate, Etoschophrya inornata sp. n. (Ciliophora, Colpodea, Platyophryida), with an Account on Evolution of Platyophryids (with William A. Bourland and Peter Vďačný), Zoologica Scripta (2012)
We studied the morphology, morphometry, resting cysts and molecular phylogeny of a new woodruffiid ciliate,...
Books
Exit to Freedom (with Calvin C. Johnson Jr.), Faculty Authored Books (2003)
This is the first-ever personal account of a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence. "With...
Presentations
The Genetics of Innocence: DNA Lessons from the Amanda Knox Case, National Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (2012)
Hampikian shared data from his lab’s recent publications on forensic DNA analysis, including “The Genetics...
'DNA Analysis in the Amanda Knox Case' and 'Fails: Preventing and Correcting Errors in Forensic DNA Analysis', FORENSICA 2012, 3rd International Conference on Forensic Genetics, The Czechoslovak Society for Forensic Genetics (2012)
Patents
Device with Magnetoplastic and/or Magnetoelastic Thin-Film Transducer and Pick-Up Coil for Harvesting Energy (with Peter Müllner), Boise State Patents (2011)
A magnetoplastic and/or magnetoelastic material transduces linear motion, delivered to it by a mechanical counection,...