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Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities

NCJ Number

300816

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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The Forensic Microbiome: The Invisible Traces We Leave Behind

NCJ Number

300807

Date Published

June 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation

2020-75-CX-0012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$530,242

Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations

2017-MU-MU-4042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$393,503

Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome

2020-R2-CX-0046

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$81,058

Developmental evaluation of a combinatorial qPCR multiplex for forensic body fluid identification

2020-R2-CX-0031

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$49,994

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

NCJ Number

252351

Journal

HUMAN GENETICS

Date Published

April 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Vertebrate Decomposition is Accelerated by Soil Microbes

NCJ Number

248278

Journal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Date Published

August 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Frozen: Thawing and Its Effect on the Postmortem Microbiome in Two Pediatric Cases

NCJ Number

252372

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Metagenomic Assessment of the Bacteria Associated With Lucilia Sericata and Lucilia Cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

NCJ Number

249281

Journal

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Date Published

January 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Microbial Similarity between Students in a Common Dormitory Environment Reveals the Forensic Potential of Individual Microbial Signatures

NCJ Number

253265

Journal

mBio

Date Published

July 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Carcass Mass Has Little Influence on the Structure of Gravesoil Microbial Communities

NCJ Number

249974

Journal

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Skin Microbe Colonies Used for Human Identification

Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts

2019-75-CX-0017

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$443,931

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 Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool

2019-R2-CX-0048

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$146,805

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 Communities on Skin Leave Unique Traces at Crime Scenes

Integrating the Microbiome as a Resource in the Forensics Toolkit

NCJ Number

252050

Date Published

September 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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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

Just Science Podcast: Episode 55: 2018 R&D: Just Skin Microbiomes As Evidence

NCJ Number

252028

Date Published

August 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Publication Link

HTML | iTunes (Audio) | Google Play Music (Audio)