Gulnaz T. Javan
Alabama State University, USA
Biography
Dr. Gulnaz Javan graduated with a Ph.D. in Forensic Science from Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2003. Her current projects employ next generation sequencing and flow cytometry, of cadaver tissues, microbial diversity in soil under decomposing cadavers, and entomology, to determine corpses’ PMIs. She received a $200,000 NSF grant for the project, "Life after Death - The Thanatomicrobiome.†Dr. Javan introduced a new term, Thanatomicrobiome, at the 66th Annual American Academy Forensic Science Meeting (AAFS) in 2014.
Abstract
Abstract : Using high-throughput sequencing of the thanatomicrobiome of criminal cases