Initial Insights into Bacterial Succession During Human Decomposition
Date Published
2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Decomposition
Soil nematode functional diversity, successional patterns, and indicator taxa associated with vertebrate decomposition hotspots
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Prediction of minimum postmortem submersion interval (PMSImin) based on eukaryotic community succession on skeletal remains recovered from a lentic environment
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation from the microbiome of sus scrofa bone in a freshwater lake
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Dual Low-Rank Decompositions for Robust Cross-View Learning
Date Published
January 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Comparative Decomposition of Humans and Pigs: Soil Biogeochemistry, Microbial Activity and Metabolomic Profiles
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Thermal and spectroscopic analysis of nitrated compounds and their break-down products using gas chromatography/vacuum UV spectroscopy (GC/VUV)
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Deep Learning Methods for Post Mortem Interval Estimation
15PNIJ-21-GG-04161-SLFO
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2021
$406,468
The Search for a Microbial Death Clock
Date Published
September 2021
Agencies
NIJ
The Search for a Microbial Death Clock
Date Published
September 24, 2021
Criminal investigators use physiological changes and insect development to determine how long a body has been dead, but scientists are using the trillions of microbes involved in human decomposition to find more accurate postmortem intervals.
In-Field Collection and Preservation of Decomposing Human Tissues to Facilitate Rapid Purification and STR Typing
Date Published
2018
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Factors Affecting Species Identifications of Blow Fly Pupae Based upon Chemical Profiles and Multivariate Statistics
Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Uncovering the Horseshoe Effect in Microbial Analyses
Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Total RNA Analysis of Bacterial Community Structural and Functional Shifts Throughout Vertebrate Decomposition
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Expanding on Total Body Score With Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Date Published
March 2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Summary),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Proteomic and microRNA Markers of Fly Development: Stable Correlates of Insect Age To Improve Forensic Entomology Casework
Date Published
April 2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition, Final Report
Date Published
September 2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Human Decomposition: A Mosaic Model for Community Succession and Implications for Future Forensic Research
Date Published
September 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Investigation of the Impact of Body Temperature and Post-Mortem Interval on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Unfixed Tissue
Date Published
September 2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Measuring Desiccation: A System Using Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
Date Published
September 2018
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Post-mortem Changes and Translocation of Bacterial Community Structure and Function for Use in Criminal Investigations
Date Published
August 2018
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
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
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Grants and Funding
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Vertebrate Decomposition is Accelerated by Soil Microbes
Date Published
August 2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Potential Use of Bacterial Community Succession in Decaying Human Bone for Estimating Postmortem Interval
Date Published
July 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Carcass Mass Has Little Influence on the Structure of Gravesoil Microbial Communities
Date Published
January 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored