Development and Validation of Standard Operating Procedures for Measuring Microbial Populations for Estimating a Postmortem Interval

The goal of this research project is to develop a SOP for sampling and pyrosequencing microbial communities on human remains to predict the actual time since death. This research could lead to a new method of post mortem interval (PMI) determination, which would assist law enforcement and medicolegal death investigators establish a time of death. ca/ncf