Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools
2019-DU-BX-0010
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$390,748
Microbial analysis
Microbial Communities on Skin Leave Unique Traces at Crime Scenes
Date Published
December 10, 2018
Investigators in two NIJ-supported studies have demonstrated that people carry unique microbial communities on their skin, and traces of those communities, left on touched objects, can be linked to the individual.
DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis
2018-DU-BX-0205
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$477,609
The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence
2018-DU-BX-0180
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$726,629
Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition
2016-DN-BX-0010
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2018
$35,000
Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data
2018-R2-CX-0017
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$150,000
Estimating the Postmortem Interval at Longer Timescales Using Bone
2018-R2-CX-0018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$150,000
Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations
2017-MU-MU-0042
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$532,286
Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics
2016-DN-BX-4194
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$684,273
The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation
2017-IJ-CX-0025
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$698,382
Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition
2016-DN-BX-0010
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss
2017-R2-CX-0008
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics
2015-DN-BX-K430
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$564,735
Forensic Body Fluid Identification Using Microbiome Signature Attribution
2016-DN-BX-0151
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$443,598
Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition
2016-DN-BX-0010
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2016
$50,000
A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics
2015-DN-BX-K030
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$564,735
Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification
2015-NE-BX-K006
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$589,701
Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis
2015-DN-BX-K031
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$219,127
Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence
2014-R2-CX-K411
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$637,942
Utilization of microbial structure and function in investigations of criminal justice
2014-DN-BX-K008
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$843,376
Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils
2013-R2-CX-K010
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$122,902
Human decomposition: A mosaic model for community succession and implications for future forensic research
2012-DN-BX-K023
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$304,961
Extending the Microbial Forensic Toolkit Through Whole Genome Sequencing and Statistical Phylogenomics
2011-DN-BX-K534
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2011
$581,213
Characterization of Bacterial and Fungal Communities Associated with Corpse Decomposition Using Next Generation Sequencing
2011-DN-BX-K533
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2011
$894,629