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Forensic Biology involves the collection, study, and analysis of biological material on evidence from crime scenes to provide unbiased, scientific reports for a criminal or civil court case to give a better understanding of the crime that occurred. Historically, one of the earliest forensic biologists was Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1985 using DNA fingerprinting or DNA typing to individually identify humans.[1] He targeted variable...

A Comparative Evaluation of the MinION and MiSeq Sequencing Platforms for the Analysis of Human Hand Microbial Profiles for Forensic Investigations.

15PNIJ-24-GG-03842-SLFO

Awarded, but not yet accepted

Funding First Awarded

2024

$487,790

Salinity Impacts the Functional mcrA and dsrA Gene Abundances in Everglades Marshes

Date Published

April 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the gut microbiome: An ecological perspective

Date Published

August 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

MPrESS: An R-Package for Accurately Predicting Power for Comparisons of 16S rRNA Microbiome Taxa Distributions including Simulation by Dirichlet Mixture Modeling

Date Published

April 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Microbial volatile emissions as arthropod semiochemicals

Date Published

2013

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Microbial Community Functional Change during Vertebrate Carrion Decomposition

Date Published

2013

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Persistence and Stabilization of Auxiliary Genes in the human Skin Virome

Date Published

March 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification

Date Published

October 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Use of hormone-specific antibody probes for differential labeling of contributor cell populations in trace DNA mixtures

Date Published

September 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval

15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$834,503

Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Rethinking the Roles of Pathogens and Mutualists: Exploring the Continuum of Symbiosis in the Context of Microbial Ecology and Evolution

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part 2)

June 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Gregory Dutton, a physical scientist at NIJ, and science writer Jim Dawson continue their conversation on the microbiome: what it is, how it applies to forensics, and the evolution of its role in forensic science.

Nano-FET-enabled biosensors: Materials perspective and recent advances in North America

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Inferring directional relationships in microbial communities using signed Bayesian networks

Date Published

2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part One)

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Development and Evaluation of a Combinatorial RT-qPCR Multiplex for Forensic Body Fluid Identification

Date Published

May 2022

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Compositionally Aware Phylogenetic Beta-Diversity Measures Better Resolve Microbiomes Associated with Phenotype

Date Published

April 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Postmortem Skeletal Microbial Community Composition and Function in Buried Human Remains

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part 1)

May 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Gregory Dutton, a physical scientist at NIJ, joins science writer Jim Dawson to discuss the microbiome: what it is, how it applies to forensics, and the evolution of its role in forensic science.

2016 National Institute of Justice Forensic Science Research and Development Symposium

Date Published

April 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Design and optimization of a 16S microbial qPCR multiplex for the presumptive identification of feces, saliva, vaginal and menstrual secretions

Date Published

March 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored