Microbiomes

Forensic Biology Research and Development at NIJ

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...

Microbiome Data Accurately Predicts the Postmortem Interval Using Machine Learning Regression Models

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

3D Molecular Cartography Using LC-MS facilitated by Optimus and 'ili software

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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

Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts

Date Published

2023

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

DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains

Date Published

July 2020

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Compositions To Cause Death in Medicolegal Investigations

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification

Date Published

October 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The microbiome of fly organs and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition

Date Published

November 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Efficient design of microstrip antennas using modified PSO algorithm

Date Published

2010

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

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)

Date Published

June 2022

Agencies

NIJ

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.

The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part One)

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Determining Informative Microbial Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for Human Identification

Date Published

May 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

DNA Aptamer–Cyanine Complexes as Generic Colorimetric Small-Molecule Sensors

Date Published

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.