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 I: Drug Profiling
- Mathew Beardah (Dstl), Peroxide-Based Explosives: Commercial and Homemade Comparisons by LC-HRMS
- 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
Source Attribution/Human Remains/Isotope Ratio
- Gabe Bowen (University of Utah), Distribution of Human Hair Stable Isotope Values for Origin and Travel Assignment
- 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
Arson/Fire Debris & Explosives Analysis
- Ryan M. Bain (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), Differentiation of Intentional vs Accidental TATP Formation at Home
- Thomas Connor (Dstl), LC-HRMS approach for peroxides with a case study of Manchester Arena
- Tilo Schachel (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA)
- John Stutzman (Dow Chemical), Peroxide-Based Explosives
- Mengliang Zhang (Ohio University), GC/MS and DART-MS for Investigating Chemical Profiles of Ignitable Liquids