Increasing Societal Impacts of Forensic Entomology: Standardizing Practices and Novel Applications

Organizer(s)

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  Lauren Weidner, Ph.D., D-ABFE (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Forensic Entomology
  School of Interdisciplinary Forensics
  Arizona State University
  Glendale, Arizona
• KH

  Krystal Hans (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Forensic Entomology
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana
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  Denise Gemmellaro (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Biological Sciences
  Kean University
  Union, New Jersey

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:05 AM MST

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren M. Weidner, Ph.D., D-ABFE (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
• 8:05 AM – 8:25 AM MST

  Identifying myiasis in death investigations
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle R. Sanford, Ph.D., D-ABFE, FAAFS (she/her/hers) – Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
• 8:25 AM – 8:45 AM MST

  Steps towards a simplified pictorial key to third instar blow fly larvae (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew Wesley Meeds – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Lauren M. Weidner, Ph.D., D-ABFE (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
• 8:45 AM – 9:05 AM MST

  Environmental forensic entomology: The fourth subdiscipline
  

  Presenting Author: Charity Owings – University of Tennessee
• 9:05 AM – 9:25 AM MST

  Carrion fly (Order: Diptera) production-to-whole-carcass biomass ratio: Implications for agricultural forensics and epidemiology?
  

  Presenting Author: Sienna McPeek – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Jeffery Tomberlin – Texas A&M University
• 9:25 AM – 9:40 AM MST

  Break
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  Poster session
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  Blow fly oviposition behavior on aged substrates
  

  Presenting Author: Vanessa Cooper – Purdue University

  Co-Author: Krystal Hans (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  Changes in bacterial composition during the process of decomposition
  

  Presenting Author: Denise Gemmellaro (she/her/hers) – Kean University

  Co-Author: Andrea Oncoy – Kean University

  Co-Author: Luis Scala – Kean University

  Co-Author: Ava La Lande – Kean University

  Co-Author: Stephanie Urias – Kean University

  Co-Author: Sarah Knapik – Kean University

  Co-Author: Gloria Raise (she/her/hers) – OPS Diagnostics
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  Effect of preservation, time and temperature on DNA recovery, quantification, and amplification on blow fly specimens (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
  

  Presenting Author: Kathryn Melancon (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Sydnee Wedel (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Jonathan Parrott (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  Forensically relevant insect diversity associated with human remains in the midwestern US
  

  Presenting Author: Krystal Hans (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  The succession of invertebrate communities involved in swine decomposition in freshwater environments in Italy
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Benassi – Universita' degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

  Co-Author: Gloria Raise (she/her/hers) – OPS Diagnostics

  Co-Author: Nicholas Lorusso – University of Texas

  Co-Author: Denise Gemmellaro (she/her/hers) – Kean University
• 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM MST

  We don't know what we don't know: A look at the gaps in forensic entomology casework
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren M. Weidner, Ph.D., D-ABFE (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
• 10:20 AM – 11:00 AM MST

  Discussion
• 11:00 AM – 11:05 AM MST

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren M. Weidner, Ph.D., D-ABFE (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University