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Forensic Utility of the Mitochondrial Hypervariable Region 1 of Domestic Dogs, in Conjunction with Breed and Geographic Information

Date Published

January 2008

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Raman Spectroscopy of Blood for Species Identification

Date Published

December 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Confounding Effects of Microbiome on the Susceptibility of TNFSF15 to Crohn's Disease in the Ryukyu Islands

Date Published

April 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Time to Collect Is Now: DNA Evidence in Groping Sexual Assault Cases

Event Dates

February 27, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

The Time to Analyze is Now: DNA Evidence in Groping Sexual Assault Cases

Event Dates

January 29, 2020, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Determining the Age of a Sample Using RNA Sequencing

Skin Microbe Colonies Used for Human Identification

Date Published

November 2019

Agencies

NIJ

Embracing Next Generation Methods for Forensic DNA Sequence Analysis

Data from the DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Grant Program

Program Moved

This program was transferred to the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Learn more about the program on BJA.ojp.gov.

The goal of NIJ's DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) program is to assist States and units of local government with existing crime laboratories to increase the capacity of publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping...

Emerging Research in Medicolegal Death Investigation

Event Dates

March 14, 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Emerging Research in Forensic Biology

Event Dates

April 9, 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts

2019-75-CX-0017

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$443,931

Development of a Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool

2019-R2-CX-0048

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$146,805

A DNA Barcoding Strategy for Blow and Flesh Flies Encountered During Medicolegal Casework

2019-DU-BX-0022

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$20,685

mtGenome Sequencing of Human Hair Shafts Using an MPS Approach

2019-DU-BX-0045

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$878,274

Improving Results from Touch DNA Evidence with Optimized Direct PCR Methods

2019-DU-BX-0009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$453,146

Assessing Methods to Enhance and Preserve Proteinaceous Impressions from the Skin of Decedents during the Early Stages of Decomposition while Examining Environmental Variations across Seasons

2019-R2-CX-0070

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$253,010

Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research

2019-DU-BX-0025

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$808,296

Development of a 2bRAD-seq Paternity Testing Pipeline for Complex and Mixed DNA Samples

2019-R2-CX-0049

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$150,000

Nanobiosensor Arrays for On-Site Multiplexed Detection of Protein Markers to Identify Forensically Relevant Body Fluids

2019-NE-BX-0006

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$600,544

Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool

2019-DU-BX-0003

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$399,699

Completion of the SONIC-DE 2.0 System for Implementation in Forensic Laboratories

2019-NE-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$175,791

Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies

2019-DU-BX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$279,983

Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes

2019-DU-BX-0023

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$192,764

Personal Identification and Ancestral Characterization from Genetically Variant Peptides in Human Hair

2019-R2-CX-0051

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$50,000