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Forensic Anthropology & Forensic Pathology | Session 2 from the 2026 NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Webinar Series

September 2026

Series

2026 NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Webinar Series

Session Overview: This session explores research advancing human identification, skeletal trauma analysis, and death investigation. Presentations will feature innovations in skeletal analysis, decomposition studies, time since death estimation, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex medicolegal investigations.

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Session 2: Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology

Event Dates

September 15, 2026, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

2026 NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Webinar Series

HIV-1 Infection in the Correctional Setting

Journal

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Date Published

1990

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Human Decomposition Ecology and Postmortem Microbiology

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reports of Adverse Events Associated With Use of Novel Psychoactive Substances, 2013-2016: A Review

Journal

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Date Published

April 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Multivariate Analysis for Estimating the Age of a Bloodstain

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Robust Methods and Statistical Thinking for “Big Data” Science and Surveys

Journal

Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice

Date Published

February 2026

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Human Decomposition Evaluation: A Standardized Approach for Staging and Scoring Morphological Features Using Artificial Intelligence

Date Published

August 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Interkingdom responses of flies to bacteria mediated by fly physiology and bacterial quorum sensing

Journal

Animal Behaviour

Date Published

December 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Forensic Microbiology

Date Published

April 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Genomic and transcriptomic studies on non-model organisms

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Species Identification of Necrophagous Insect Eggs Based on Amino Acid Profile Differences Revealed by Direct Analysis in Real Time-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Journal

Analytical Chemistry

Date Published

June 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Quantifying pteridines in the heads of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Application for forensic entomology

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

September 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Metal pollution investigation of Goldman Park, Middletown Ohio: Evidence for steel and coal pollution in a high child use setting

Journal

Science of the Total Environment

Date Published

October 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reflective spectroscopy investigations of clothing items to support law enforcement, search and rescue, and war crime investigations

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

September 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Effect of Obesity on the Reliability of Age-At-Death Indicators of the Pelvis

Journal

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

Date Published

December 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Heuristic pairwise alignment of de Bruijn graphs to facilitate simultaneous transcript discovery in related organisms from RNA-Seq data

Journal

BMC Genomics

Date Published

November 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Data Collection Procedures for Forensic Skeletal Material 2.0 (or DCP 2.0)

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Inverse prediction for multivariate mixed models with standard software

Journal

Statistical Papers

Date Published

August 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Dynamic Maggot Mass Microbiome

Journal

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Date Published

January 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Increasing Precision in Development-Based Postmortem Interval Estimates: What's Sex Got to Do With It?

Journal

Journal of Medical Entomology

Date Published

March 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A Survey of Bacterial diversity from successive life stages of black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing

Journal

Journal of Medical Entomology

Date Published

May 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Bacteria Mediate Oviposition by the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Journal

Scientific Reports

Date Published

September 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Role of Spatial Aggregation in Forensic Entomology

Journal

Journal of Medical Entomology

Date Published

January 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A Reflective Spectroscopy Proof-of-Concept Study of Urea for Supporting Investigations of Human Waste in Multiple Forensic Contexts

Journal

Forensic Sciences

Date Published

September 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)