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Microbial succession in human rib skeletal remains and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

The Application of Miniplex Primer Sets in the Analysis of Degraded DNA from Human Skeletal Remains

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2006

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Microbial Community Assembly and Metabolic Function During Mammalian Corpse Decomposition

Journal

Science

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Improving identification of unknown American Indians and Hispanic/Latinx Americans

15PNIJ-21-GG-04139-SLFO

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2021

$532,833

Amino Acid Specific Stable Isotope Ratios in Human Keratin Tissue for Region-of-Origin and Residency Determination

15PNIJ-21-GG-04157-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$320,732

Pre-grouping of commingled human skeletal remains by elemental analysis

15PNIJ-21-GG-04151-SLFO

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2021

$240,594

Improving Age-at-Death Estimates from Human Skeletal Remains Through Spatial Analysis of Intracortical Remodeling Using Geographic Information Systems Software

15PNIJ-21-GG-04136-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$349,970

Implementing NAGPRA Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners

December 2021

This project is designed to connect tribal partners to ME/C offices to facilitate successful disposition protocols for non-forensically significant Native American remains that are compliant with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA).

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The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy maggot blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Journal

Ecological Entomology

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Facultative Viviparity in a Flesh Fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): Forensic Implications of High Variability in Rates of Oviparity in Blaesoxipha plinthopyga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Journal

Journal of Medical Entomology

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Search for a Microbial Death Clock

Date Published

September 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Genome scans of facial features in East Africans and cross-population comparisons reveal novel associations

Journal

PLoS Genetics

Date Published

August 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reconstructing full and partial STR profiles from severely burned human remains using comparative ancient and forensic DNA extraction techniques

Journal

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Utility of the Ion S5 (TM) and MiSeq FGx (TM) sequencing platforms to characterize challenging human remains

Journal

Legal Medicine

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Recommendations for Maintaining a Dermestid Beetle Colony (Dermestes maculatus) for Processing Human Remains

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Spatial Distributions of Oxygen Stable Isotope Ratios in Tap Water From Mexico for Region of Origin Predictions of Unidentified Border Crossers

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

July 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis

2020-R2-CX-0048

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$683,542

GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database

2020-DQ-BX-0025

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$457,536

Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples

2020-DQ-BX-0005

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$444,723

Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach

2020-R2-CX-0024

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$100,000

A Virtual Anthropological Approach to the Study of Commingled Human Remains

2020-R2-CX-0025

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$138,704

Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches

2020-R2-CX-0041

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$150,000

Validation Study of the Utility of Using Total Body Score and Accumulated Degree Days to Determine the Post-Mortem Interval of Human Remains From Three Human Decomposition Research Facilities

Date Published

September 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

GC x GC-TOFMS and supervised multivariate approaches to study human cadaveric decomposition olfactive signatures

Journal

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Date Published

June 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)