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Microbial Forensics
- 3rd Edition - November 30, 2019
- Editors: Bruce Budowle, Steven E. Schutzer, Stephen A. Morse
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 7 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 8 0 - 2
Microbial Forensics, Third Edition, serves as a complete reference on the discipline, describing the advances, challenges and opportunities that are integral in applying science t… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMicrobial Forensics, Third Edition, serves as a complete reference on the discipline, describing the advances, challenges and opportunities that are integral in applying science to help solve future biocrimes. New chapters include: Microbial Source Tracking, Clinical Recognition, Bioinformatics, and Quality Assurance. This book is intended for a wide audience, but will be indispensable to forensic scientists and researchers interested in contributing to the growing field of microbial forensics. Biologists and microbiologists, the legal and judicial system, and the international community involved with Biological Weapons Treaties will also find this volume invaluable.
- Presents new and expanded content that includes a statistical analysis of forensic data, legal admissibility and standards of evidence
- Discusses actual cases of forensic bioterrorism
- Includes contributions from editors and authors who are leading experts in the field, with primary experience in the application of this fast-growing discipline
Primary: Forensic scientists, researchers and practitioners in microbial forensics laboratories.
Secondary: Microbiology researchers; attorneys, law enforcement and intelligence communities; post-graduate students of forensic science and the international community involved with Biological Weapons Treaties.
Secondary: Microbiology researchers; attorneys, law enforcement and intelligence communities; post-graduate students of forensic science and the international community involved with Biological Weapons Treaties.
- No. of pages: 526
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: November 30, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128153796
- eBook ISBN: 9780128153802
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Bruce Budowle
Dr. Budowle has a lengthy CV and career. Some of his efforts over the last 15 years also are in counter terrorism, including identification of victims from mass disasters and in efforts involving microbial forensics and bioterrorism. Dr. Budowle was an advisor to New York State in the effort to identify the victims from the WTC attack. In the area of microbial forensics, Dr. Budowle has been the chair of the Scientific Working Group on Microbial Genetics and Forensics, whose mission was to set QA guidelines, develop criteria for biologic and user databases, set criteria for a National Repository, and develop forensic genomic applications. He also has served on the Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Microbial Forensics sponsored by American Society of Microbiology, an organizer of four Microbial Forensics Meetings held at The Banbury Center in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and on steering committees for NAS sponsored meetings. Dr. Budowle has published approximately 600 articles, made more than 720 presentations (many of which were as an invited speaker at national and international meetings), and testified in well over 250 criminal cases in the areas of molecular biology, population genetics, statistics, quality assurance, and forensic biology. In addition, he has authored or co-authored books on molecular biology techniques, electrophoresis, protein detection, and microbial forensics.
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Human Identification, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft Worth, TX, USASS
Steven E. Schutzer
Steven Schutzer, MD is a physician-scientist who trained and was on the faculty at Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital, and Rockefeller University, before joining New Jersey Medical School. His research has focused on the interface of the immune system and microbes. Particular areas of research interest are Lyme and Tick diseases, neuroimmunology, and immunology. Dr. Schutzer is board certified in Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Clinical Laboratory Immunology. Dr. Schutzer’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and other organizations.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USASM
Stephen A. Morse
Dr. Morse attended graduate school at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his M.S.P.H. (’66) in environmental chemistry and biology and a Ph.D. (’69) in microbiology. In 1984, he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as Director of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Research Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID); and in 1996, became the Associate Director for Science of the newly created Division of AIDS, STDs and Tuberculosis Laboratory Research. From 1999 - 2007, he served as the Associate Director for Science, Division of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response where he worked on national and international bioterrorism-related issues. In 2008, he became the Associate Director for Environmental Microbiology, CDC. He has published 325 peer reviewed articles, books and chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USARead Microbial Forensics on ScienceDirect