布鲁斯·布道尔（Bruce Budowle）就法医科学的进展与挑战向《BioTechniques》杂志发展编辑Ashling Cannon进行了访谈。布道尔在弗吉尼亚理工大学（美国弗吉尼亚州）获得了遗传学博士学位。随后，他在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（美国阿拉巴马州）进行了博士后研究，研究急性淋巴细胞白血病、糖尿病和黑色素瘤的遗传风险因素。布道尔在他的职业生涯早期，并没有在法医科学领域花费太多时间，但是在1982年，有一则广告引起了他的极大兴趣，该广告是FBI招聘人员，用于开发基因标记系统，以识别在犯罪现场留下生物证据的人。布道尔在FBI工作了26年，帮助开发了许多基因分析方法。1985年，DNA能够作为识别个人身份的标志成为现实，DNA法医学分析取得了巨大的发展。2009年，布道尔进入学术界并加入了德克萨斯大学北部健康科学中心（美国德克萨斯州），最终成为人类识别中心的主任，负责失踪人员和传统犯罪案件，教授学生，并开展基础和应用研究。布道尔感到非常幸运，他有资源、机会和学术基础来学习和发展自己的知识。布道尔最近从学术界退休，目前通过美国司法部的国际刑事侦查培训援助计划（ICITAP）以及非政府组织DNAforAfrica，在非洲推动DNA法医应用的能力建设工作。

Bruce Budowle speaks to Ashling Cannon, Journal Development Editor for BioTechniques, about advancements & challenges in forensic science. Budowle completed his doctorate in genetics at Virginia Tech (VA, USA) formally known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (AL, USA) to study genetic risk factors for acute lymphocytic leukemia, diabetes and melanoma. Budowle was early in his career and hadn't spent much time in forensics at this stage, but in 1982 an advert caught his eye for a job with the FBI to develop genetic marker systems to identify people who have left biological evidence at crime scenes. Budowle spent 26 years with the FBI and helped develop a plethora of genetic analysis methods. In 1985, it became a reality that DNA could be a signature for identifying people, and there were huge developments in DNA forensic analysis. In 2009, Budowle moved into academia and went to the University of North Texas Health Science Center (TX, USA), eventually becoming the Director of the Center for Human Identification, where he oversaw missing person and traditional crime cases, taught students and carried out fundamental and applied research. Budowle feels incredibly lucky to have had the resources, opportunities and academic infrastructure to learn and develop his knowledge. Budowle recently retired from academia and now spends his time building capacity for DNA forensics applications in Africa through the Department of Justice, with a well-established program known as the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) as well as with the non-government organization (NGO) DNAforAfrica.