Microbial forensics: new breakthroughs and future prospects

M Oliveira, A Amorim - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in genetic data generation, through massive parallel sequencing (MPS),
storage and analysis have fostered significant progresses in microbial forensics (or forensic …

Forensic analysis of human microbiome in skin and body fluids based on geographic location

HW Cho, YB Eom - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have facilitated the in silico forensic
analysis of human microbiome. Specific microbial species or communities obtained from the …

Necrobiome framework for bridging decomposition ecology of autotrophically and heterotrophically derived organic matter

ME Benbow, PS Barton, MD Ulyshen… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Decomposition contributes to global ecosystem function by contributing to nutrient recycling,
energy flow, and limiting biomass accumulation. The decomposer organisms influencing this …

The 'ForensOMICS'approach for postmortem interval estimation from human bone by integrating metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics

A Bonicelli, HL Mickleburgh, A Chighine, E Locci… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The combined use of multiple omics allows to study complex interrelated biological
processes in their entirety. We applied a combination of metabolomics, lipidomics and …

Microbiome-derived lipopolysaccharide enriched in the perinuclear region of Alzheimer's disease brain

Y Zhao, L Cong, V Jaber, WJ Lukiw - Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Abundant clinical, epidemiological, imaging, genetic, molecular, and pathophysiological
data together indicate that there occur an unusual inflammatory reaction and a disruption of …

A large-scale survey of the postmortem human microbiome, and its potential to provide insight into the living health condition

JL Pechal, CJ Schmidt, HR Jordan, ME Benbow - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The microbiome plays many roles in human health, often through the exclusive lens of
clinical interest. The inevitable end point for all living hosts, death, has its own altered …

Elucidation of complexity and prediction of interactions in microbial communities

C Zuñiga, L Zaramela, K Zengler - Microbial biotechnology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms engage in complex interactions with other members of the microbial
community, higher organisms as well as their environment. However, determining the exact …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the postmortem interval using microbes: Knowledge gaps and a path to technology adoption

JL Metcalf - Forensic Science International: Genetics, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbes have potential to be used as physical evidence for forensic science because they
are ubiquitous and have predictable ecologies. With the advent of next generation …

Postmortem succession of gut microbial communities in deceased human subjects

JM DeBruyn, KA Hauther - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
The human microbiome has demonstrated an importance for the health and functioning in
living individuals. However, the fate of the microbiome after death is less understood. In …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating the microbiome as a resource in the forensics toolkit

TH Clarke, A Gomez, H Singh, KE Nelson… - Forensic Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The introduction of DNA fingerprinting to forensic science rapidly expanded the available
evidence that could be garnered from a crime scene and used in court cases. Next …