Department of Chemistry

Dr. Grgicak joins OSAC’s Biology/DNA Scientific Area Committee: Dr. Grgicak joins OSAC’s Biology/DNA Scientific Area Committee

Catherine Grgicak

Dr. Catherine Grgicak joins OSAC’s Biology/DNA SAC as an Officer where she will aid in the development of national standards and guidelines from the Biological Methods, Biological Data Interpretation & Reporting and Wildlife Forensics Subcommittees.
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4 days agoDr. Grgicak joins OSAC’s Biology/DNA Scientific Area Committee
LFTDI Student Nidhi Sheth Awarded NIJ Travel Grant to Present at PITTCON 2020: LFTDI Student Nidhi Sheth Awarded NIJ Travel Grant to Present at PITTCON 2020

Catherine Grgicak

LFTDI student and CIB PhD candidate, Nidhi Sheth, was awarded an NIJ (National Institute of Justice) Travel Grant to present her work “Deconvolution of Mixture Samples using Single-Cell Techniques for Forensic Human Identification” on March 03 at PITTCON Conference & Expo during the NIJ Poster Session.
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4 days agoLFTDI Student Nidhi Sheth Awarded NIJ Travel Grant to Present at PITTCON 2020
Congratulations to Stacy A. Love (Salas Research Group) for her first author publication in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. (Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014181301939018X): Congratulations to Stacy A. Love (Salas Research Group) for her first author publication in Internat...

David Salas-De La Cruz

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4 days agoCongratulations to Stacy A. Love (Salas Research Group) for her first author publication in Internat...
Dr. Zhu has collaborative research ongoing in 2020.: Dr. Zhu has collaborative research ongoing in 2020.

Hao Zhu

Dr. Zhu has three collaborative research papers accepted in the first week of 2020: Nanomaterial research on ACS Nano Toxicity pathway study on Chemical Research in Toxicology Food informatics on Food Chemistry I want to thank all collaborators for multiple successful projects.
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2 weeks agoDr. Zhu has collaborative research ongoing in 2020.
Dr. Zhu published on Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology: Dr. Zhu published on Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Hao Zhu

Dr. Zhu published an editor invited review, titled “Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Modeling for Drug Discovery“, on Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
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2 weeks agoDr. Zhu published on Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Zhu acquired a research contract from ExxonMobil: Dr. Zhu acquired a research contract from ExxonMobil

Hao Zhu

Dr. Zhu’s research is being supported by ExxonMobil for an one year contract. This research project aims to develop predictive models for estrogen receptor binding models to evaluate new compounds for ExxonMobil.
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1 month agoDr. Zhu acquired a research contract from ExxonMobil
Congratulation to Abneris Morales (Rising Senior Chemistry-Salas Lab.) for been accepted as a Chemistry Student Trainee at the Air Force Civilian Service Premier College Intern Summer Program for the 2020 summer.: Congratulation to Abneris Morales (Rising Senior Chemistry-Salas Lab.) for been accepted as a Chemis...

David Salas-De La Cruz

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2 months agoCongratulation to Abneris Morales (Rising Senior Chemistry-Salas Lab.) for been accepted as a Chemis...
Dr. Zhu gave an invited seminar in Case Western Reserve University: Dr. Zhu gave an invited seminar in Case Western Reserve University

Hao Zhu

Dr. Zhu gave an invited seminar titled “Big data, AI and intelligent modeling for modern computational toxicology” in the Department of Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University on November 15, 2019.
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2 months agoDr. Zhu gave an invited seminar in Case Western Reserve University
Dan is departing from Rutgers-Camden this week.: Dan is departing from Rutgers-Camden this week.

Hao Zhu

Daniel Russo, who passed his PhD defense with honor in August 2019, will leave our school for his new job in US FDA this week. In the past five years, he did excellent research under my guidance and resulted 10 peer-reviewed papers and one book chapter, including this year’s NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month. ... Continue reading Dan is departing from Rutgers-Camden this week....
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2 months agoDan is departing from Rutgers-Camden this week.
LFTDI Presents Developmental Validation of NOCIt at NEAFS: LFTDI Presents Developmental Validation of NOCIt at NEAFS

Catherine Grgicak

Integrating Validated A Posteriori Probabilities on the Number of Contributors into Forensic Interpretation Pipelines for Full DNA Profile Interpretation will be presented at the 2019 NEAFS conference in Lancaster PA by Dr. Catherine M. Grgicak. Here she will summarize the developmental validation of NOCIt – a software that renders the a posteriori probability distribution on the number of contributors to complex DNA mixtures – with a large-scale forensically relevant dataset. Notably, Dr. Grgicak shall demonstrate how the APP is used to calculate a full weight-of-evidence (log likelihood ratio or LR) without the need to designate that a particular NOC explains the evidence.
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2 months agoLFTDI Presents Developmental Validation of NOCIt at NEAFS
MSFS Student Shavari Fagan Featured in Rutgers-Camden NewsNow: MSFS Student Shavari Fagan Featured in Rutgers-Camden NewsNow

Kimberlee Moran

Forensic Science student Shavari Fagan’s research was recently featured by the Rutgers-Camden NewsNow team. Shavari plans to research CBD vape liquid for the presence of contaminants as well as the possibility for conversion to THC. CBD is not a controlled substance but THC is which could lead to erroneous criminal charges for those that use ... Continue reading MSFS Student Shavari Fagan Featured in Rutgers-Camden NewsNow...
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3 months agoMSFS Student Shavari Fagan Featured in Rutgers-Camden NewsNow
LFTDI Awarded NIST Grant to Develop In Silico MPS Forensic Laboratory: LFTDI Awarded NIST Grant to Develop In Silico MPS Forensic Laboratory

Catherine Grgicak

Dr. Grgicak was awarded a two-year grant from the NIST Measurement Science & Engineering Grant Program to develop an in silico NGS forensic laboratory. The goal is to develop an in silico forensic laboratory using forensically relevant next-generation sequencing data in order to test multifarious laboratory scenarios and optimize processing decisions, improving forensic validation procedures. These in silico data can also be used to train machine learning and deep learning tools that require robust and large training sets, enhancing forensic analysis and interpretation procedures.
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4 months agoLFTDI Awarded NIST Grant to Develop In Silico MPS Forensic Laboratory

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