Invited Speakers will be listed below as they are confirmed. In addition to the invited speakers listed here, the program will be completed with contributions from submitted abstracts as either short talks or posters. Abstract submission will open in July.
Opening Session
- Pieter Dorrestein (UC San Diego), Leveraging Data Science to Trace Two Billion Mass Spectrometry Data Points: Opportunities for Forensics
Drugs
- Jamie P. Butalewicz (Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division), Training of Drug Chemists on Portable MS Systems
- J. Tyler Davidson (Sam Houston University), Identification of Marijuana by Ion Complexation
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Glen Jackson (West Virginia University), Expert Algorithm for Substance Identification to ID Seized Drugs from Tandem Mass Spectra
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Rabi Musah (Louisiana State University), DART-MS
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Ed Sisco (NIST), RADAR NPS Drugs
- Ruth Smith (Michigan State University), Statistical Comparison of Mass Spectra
- Arian van Asten (University of Amsterdam), LA-ICP-MS, a powerful and universal tool for forensic attribution
Source Attribution/Human Remains/Isotope Ratio
- Gabe Bowen (University of Utah), Distribution of Human Hair Stable Isotope Values for Origin and Travel Assignment
- Candice Bridge (University of Central Florida),Separation of commingled sexual assault evidence for chemical and biochemical analysis
- Fantasia Whaley (Florida International University), The Analysis of Complex VOC Profiles during Early Decomposition via HS-SPME-GC/MS and Chemometrics
Ambient Ionization & Instrumentation
- Robert Ewing (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Field-Portable AFT-MS for Vapor Detection of Drugs and Explosives
- Conor C. Jenkins (U.S. Army DEVCOM CBC)
- Nicholas Manicke (Indiana University Indianapolis), Drug screening by Paper Spray MS with Integrated Solid Phase Extraction
- Celeste Medrano (Texas Tech University), Targeted Detection of Explosive Volatiles via SIM-MS: Implications for Canine Olfactory Calibration
- Jelle de Koning (TNO), Demonstrating CWA presence through biomarker analysis in dried blood spots and plants
Arson/Fire Debris & Explosives Analysis
- Matthew Beardah (DSTL), The LC-HRMS Approach with Peroxides with a Case Study of Manchester Arena
- Ryan M. Bain (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), Differentiation of Intentional vs Accidental TATP Formation at Home
- Nicola Shephard (DSTL), The use of LC-HRMS for trace explosives analysis at the Forensic Explosives Laboratory
- Tilo Schachel (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA), DART-Q-ToF-MS/MS in the analysis of nitrocellulose traces in bulk- and post-blast samples of smokeless powder
- John Stutzman (Dow Chemical), Dissociation Behavior of 2-Butanone Peroxide (MEKP) Oligomer Cations
- Mengliang Zhang (Ohio University), GC/MS and DART-MS for Investigating Chemical Profiles of Ignitable Liquids