Entomologia Forense en Argentina

Esta lista consiste en nombres, direcciones electrónicas (email) e institucionales, páginas web y toda otra información sobre enomólogos forenses alrededor del mundo. La misma esta basada en la lista publicada en la International Forensic Entomology Pages de Morten Stærkeby (la cual recomendamos visitar) acrecentada con una lista más completa de entomólogos forenses de Argentina e Iberoamérica. Lamentablemente la lista de M.Stærkeby está desactualizada y su portal contiene muchas direcciones inexistentes, razón por la cual algunos enlaces ó email pueden fallar. Aquellos que han sido confirmados a la fecha⁽¹⁾ son marcados con un tilde (

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Argentina

Buenos Aires

Dr. Néstor CENTENO (ncenteno@unq.edu.ar

) es profesor de biología e investigador en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), Argentina. Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas (PhD) con un postgrado en Entomología Forense, se especializó en el estudio de las Calliphoridae. Desde 1998 ha desarrollado estudios de sucesión cadavérica en Buenos Aires, realizado pericias entomológicas forenses solicitadas por el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses de la Fiscalía de Cámaras de Lomas de Zamora, organizó y dictó el seminario de postgrado Entomología Forense (2003) en la UNQ y publicó varios papers, especialmente referidos a entomología forense, y la taxocenosis y ecología de Calliphoridae.

Dirección:
Dr. Néstor Centeno
PIIB/CEI
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Sáenz Peña 180, Bernal (B1876BXD) Argentina
Tel: +54-11-4365-7100 extension 227
Fax: +54-11-4365-7182

Lic. Marcelo A. MALDONADO (lic.mmaldonado@gmail.com

) es licenciado en Ciencias Biológicas, graduado de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (FCEyN, UBA), Argentina, con orientación en morfología y sistemática animal y un postgrado en entomología forense (1996). Entre 1999 y 2003 participa de las investigaciones en sucesión cadavérica llevadas a cabo por el Programa de Investigaciones de Interacciones Biológicas (PIIB, Universidad Nac. de Quilmes) bajo la dirección del Dr. Centeno, y en pericias entomológicas forenses solicitadas por el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses de la Fiscalía de Cámaras de Lomas de Zamora. Autor y coautor de papers, notas de divulgación y monografias relacionados a la entomología forense y los dípteros callifóridos.

Dr. Adriana OLIVA (aoliva@macn.gov.ar

) es Doctora en Ciencias Biológicas (PhD) e investigadora del CONICET (una organización especial para investigadores, similar al francés CNRS). Trabaja en taxonomía de Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera) desde 1979 (a la fecha más de 20 trabajos al respecto publicados ó en prensa). Realiza pericias de entomología forense y miasis desde 1993. Jefe del Laboratorio de Entomología Forense desde 1994.
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Dirección:
Dr. Adriana Oliva
Laboratorio de Entomologia forense
Museo argentino de Ciencias naturales
Av. A. Gallardo 470 (C1405DJR), Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

La Plata

Dirección:
Dra. Roxana Mariani
División Entomología
Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n La Plata (B1900FWA)
Tel: (54-0221)425-7744/9161/9638/6134 Int.139
Fax: (54-0221)425-7527
Correo-e: rmariani@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
URL: www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar

Dirección:
Lic. Graciela Varela
División Entomología
Museo de La Plata
Paseo del Bosque s/n La Plata (B1900FWA)
Tel: (54-0221)425-7744/9161/9638/6134 Int.139
Fax: (54-0221)425-7527
Correo-e: gracielavarela1969@hotmail.com.ar
URL: www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar

Córdoba

Dr. Moira BATTÁN (moira_battan@hotmail.com

) es becaria de la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica. En la actualidad realiza su tesis doctoral en el tema "Estructura y Dinámica de la comunidad sarcosaprófaga" en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

Dirección:
Biol. Moira Battán Horenstein
Cátedra de Diversidad Animal I
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, (5000) Córdoba, Argentina.
Tel: +54-351-433-2090 ext. 44
Fax: +54-351-433-2131

Mendoza

Fernando Aballay (faballay@mendoza-conicet.gov.ar

) Becario de la Agencia SECYT , trabaja en el IADIZA (Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas) realizando pericias entomológicas en dicha provincia argentina..

Av. Ruíz Leal s/n Parque General San Martín. Mendoza - Argentina

Misiones

Daniela INSAURRALDE (dinsaurralde@latinmail.com

) es miembro del Cuerpo Médico Forense del Poder Judicial de la provincia de Misiones (Argentina).

Dirección:
Daniela Insaurralde
Cuerpo Médico Forense
Poder Judicial de la provincia de Misiones (Argentina)

Salta

Maria Rosana AYÓN (rosanaay@yahoo.com.ar

) biologa, responsable del Servicio de Biologia Forense, Departamento Técnico Científico, del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Fiscales, Ministerio Público de Salta.

Dr. Rosana Ayón

Servicio de Biologia Forense

Dpto. Tecnico Cientifico

C.I.F Ministerio Publico de Salta

Avda. Bolivia 4671 CP4400

Salta, Capital- Argentina

email: rosanaay@yahoo.com.ar

Tel. 054-03874258400 Int 5076

Australia

Southern Australia

James F.Wallman ( james.wallman@adelaide.edu.au ) is a lecturer in Zoology at the University of Adelaide, and a consultant forensic entomologist to the South Australian Police Department. He has been researching the application of blowflies to forensic science since 1990.

Address:
James F. Wallman
Department of Environmental Biology
The University of Adelaide
SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5005

Western Australia

David Cook (davidc@apb.agric.wa.gov.au ) has expertise in dung beetle ecology and worked extensively with sheep blowfly and myasis flies. Together with Ian Dadour he handles approximately 8 forensic entomology cases per year. This work is to be recognised in a more formal arrangement with the Western Australian State Forensic Medical Centre.

Address:
Dr David Cook
Entomology Section
Agriculture WA
Baron Hay Court , South Perth
Australia 6151

Ian Dadour (idadour@cyllene.uwa.edu.au ) has expertise in dung beetle and bush fly ecology. He has worked extensively with diseases carried by bush flies and has been involved with sheep blowfly. Together with David Cook he handles approximately 8 forensic entomology cases per year. This work is to be recognised in a more formal arrangement with the Western Australian State Forensic Medical Centre.

Address:
Dr Ian Dadour
Zoology Department
University of WA
Nedlands
Australia 6009

Brazil

Campinas

Lucila Carvalho (luma@unicamp.br ) is a PhD student at Campinas State University. She has been working on forensic entomology since 1993. Her research involves insect succession on carrion and human bodies in different habitats and seasons, as well as blowfly and fleshfly rearing. She is beginning a study on the effect of drugs on carrion flies. Two papers on insects of forensic importance and carcass decomposition in Brazil, are in preparation.

Address:
Lucila M. L. Carvalho
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Instituto de Biologia
Departamento de Parasitologia
Cp 6109 13083-970
Campinas - SP - Brasil
Fax ( 55 192 ) 393124

Canada

British Columbia

Gail Anderson (ganderso@sfu.ca ) at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia is an active forensic entomologist who receives 6-20 cases or more each year. She has been working in the area since 1988. She is a member of the Council of American Forensic Entomologists.

Leigh Dillon (asticot@sprint.ca ) is a Coroner in British Columbia, with a Master of Science degree from the Simon Fraser University. During her master thesis she worked under Dr. Gail Anderson. Her research involved creating an extensive database of the insect succession on carrion (using pigs as human models) in various habitats (sun and shade), various seasons (spring, summer, fall) and various geographic areas (Lower Mainland, Interior and Northern Brithish Columbia). Some research was also done on insect succession on black bears.

Address:
Leigh Dillon
Forensic Entomologist/Coroner
BC Coroners Service
New Westminster Region
#407 - 4603 Kingsway
Burnaby BC
V5H 4M4

Robert Latham Randell (randell@skyfox.usask.ca ) is an agricultural entomologist in Saskatchewan with abroad interest in entomology.He is currently receiveing material from 1-2 homicide cases each year.

France

Jean J. Menier (menier@cimrs1.mnhn.fr ) is a professor at the Coleoptera section at theDept. of Entomology of the Museum nationale d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He is also the head of the SEM Dept. at the Museum. Jean J. Menier has given lectures and practical works to the first and second batch of forensic entomologists at the Gendarmerie Nationale, which has a forensic entomology section near Paris. He has a solid experience in the field of forensic entomology, but has never published anything in that field. He is currently working on the systematics of Cleridae (checkered beetles).
Address:
Jean J. Menier
Professor, Head of Coleoptera section
Museum nationale d'Histoire naturelle
45 rue Buffon
75005 PARIS
FRANCE

China

Cui Hu ( chu@zjau.edu.cn ) is a professor at the institute of applied entomology of Zhejiang agricultural university. He pioneered the research and application of forensic entomology in china since 1988. Most of his research has concerned creating database of the insect succession on carrion (using pig as human models) in various habits andseasons , as well as the biology of carrion flies. Several papers (inChinese) have been published and a book(in Chinese) on forensic entomology is prepared. Currently, he is busying with the set up of consulting workshop on forensic entomology and the development of education tools for law enforcement personnel. He can be reached by:

Cui Hu
Institute of applied entomology
Zhejiang Agricultural university
Hangzhou,310029
China
Phone: 086-0571-6971216
Fax : 0571-774636

Jiangfeng Wang (chu@zjau.edu.cn) is a doctoral candidate with specialization in forensic entomology at Zhejiang agriculturaluniversity, tutored by Dr. Cui Hu. His research involves (1) comparison of the insect succession on different corpse and carrion in various habitats and various seasons (2)bionomic and biology of carrion flies (3) the development statistical methods for postmortem intervalestimation. Several papers is prepared. Except these, he also help Prof.Cui Hu to do all the other things involving forensic entomology. He can be reached by:

Jiangfeng Wang
Institute of applied entomology
Zhejiang Agricultural university
Hangzhou, 310029
China
Phone:086-0571-6971216
Fax: 0571-774636

Egypt

Omar Shalaby ( oshalaby@intouch.com ) is an assistant lecturer of forensic entomology at the Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Egypt. He has worked with forensic entomology since 1990, and have specialized in arthropod succession on corpses killed by different drugs and toxins. His master thesis was done in Alexandria, Egypt on insect succession on corpses in the desert areas, and currently he is completing his Ph.D. in the Entomotoxicology field.

Address:
Omar Shalaby
Zoology Department
Faculty of Science
University of Alexandria
Moharrem Bey, Alexandria
Egypt

Germany

Jens Amendt ( jamendt@sng.uni-frankfurt.de ) and Roman Krettek (jamendt@sng.uni-frankfurt.de) at the Senckenberg institute in Frankfurt/Main created in 1997 a Forensic Entomology Project. Main research subjects will be the Biology and Taxonomy of insects of forensic importance in Germany, especially Diptera. Moreover they want to examine the role of parasitoids of blowflies in forensic entomology. They cooperate with the local police departments and the department of forensic medicine and have already worked on some cases, also homicides.
Addresses
Jens Amendt
Senckenberganlage 25
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg
Entomologie III
60325 Frankfurt
Germany
phone: +49 69 7542 321

Roman Krettek
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg
Forschungsstation fuer Mittelgebirge
63599 Biebergemuend
phone: +49 6050 91140
fax: +49 6050 911418

India

Dr. Pankaj Kulshrestha ( pankajk@bom6.vsnl.net.in ) is a Medical Officer at the Medico Legal Institute in Bhopal, India. He has been involved in routine investigations and research in the field of Forensic Entomology since 1982. He has presented 30 research papers on forensic entomology in both national and international conferences. His main area of research are: post mortem interval estimation based on Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae & Muscidae flies infestation on human corpses and role of maggots in forensic toxicology.

Dr. Kulshrestha was appointed Assistant Chemical Examiner in 1993 by the State Home (Police) Department, which contributed greatly to establishing the validity of this evidence in Indian courts of law. He has collectedand analysed entomological evidence routinely for estimating the post-mortem interval in the prevailing environment in about 500 autopsy cases.

Dr. Kulshrestha pioneered the application of Forensic Entomology in India by publishing an article describing the use of insects and larvae to determine the time of death.(1) His Ph.D. dissertation, (2) a study of 155 cases which was completed in 1989, has formed a useful basis for further development of forensic entomology both in India and abroad. (3) The present entomological technique of time since death appraisal has proved of great practical use in cases of homicides where body is usually referred in the latter stagesof putrefaction. However,maggots substantially to be the only evidence present for the purpose, particularly in unknown homicides, where there is no clue about last alive history of deceased person is available.(4) He presented research paper on forensic entomology in 3rd International symposium - Advances in Legal Medicine at Ossaka Japan, Sept.1996.

(1) Kulshrestha, P. and Chandra, H. 1987. Time since death - an entomological study on corpses. Amer. J. For. Med. Pathol. 8(3):pp.
(2) Kulshrestha, P. 1989. Use of Insects and Larvae as Forensic Tools.Ph.D. Dissertation, Bhopal University, Bhopal, M.P., India.
(3) Kulshrestha, P. 1995. Forensic entomology - A new concept in Medico-legal field .J.of Forensic Med. & Toxicology,AIIMS,New Delhi,India, vol XII No 3&4 pp 8.
(4) Kulshrestha P,Satpathy D.K.,Dubey B.P 1997, Role of Synthesiomyia Nudiseta(Muscidae) in forensic entomology.Proc.of Advances in Legalmedicine 3rd International Symposium.Ossaka Japan. pp 159-161.

Dr. Devinder Singh ( devinder@pbi.ernet.in ) is working as Senior Lecturer in the Depertment of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala, India- 147002. In 1992, the Govt. of India awarded him a Post-doctoral Fellowship for undertaking collaborative research work in the laboratory of Prof. Bernard Greenberg, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He worked with Prof. Greenberg for one year and published two research papers dealing with forensic entomology. He has presented papers in several national and international conferences. Presently he is running a major research project on Forensic Entomology sponsored by the Department ofScience & Technology, Govt. of India. He is also interested in the taxonomy of Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae. Any collaborative work in this direction is welcome.

Address (Office) :
Dr. Devinder Singh
Department of Zoology
Punjabi University Patiala
India- 147002
Phone : (91) 175-282461 ext. 6284 (pp)

Address (Residence) :
H.No. 257-B
Sewak Colony
Patiala.
India-147001
Phone: (91)175-301615

Italy

Padova

Margherita Turchetto ( turchet@mail.bio.unipd.it

) is a proffessor at the Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università di Padova (Italy). She has several papers and experience in the field of the forensic entomology.

Address:
Prof. Margherita Turchetto
-Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università di Padova
via U. Bassi 58/b 35131 PADOVA (Italy)
ph. ++ 39 0498276309 fax ++ 39 0498276230
E-mail : margherita.turchetto@unipd.it
E-mail : turchet@mail.bio.unipd.it
----------------------------------------------------
-Museo di Zoologia "A.Vallisneri"
Università di Padova
via Jappelli 1 - 35121 PADOVA (Italy)
ph.: ++39 0498275410
E-mail: muzo@mail.bio.unipd.it

Korea

Dr. Tae-young Moon ( tymoon@sdg.kosin.ac.kr ) is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the Kosin University. Dr. Tae-young Moon has accumulated a series of data for the forensic application of carrion insects.
Address:

Department of Biological Sciences
Kosin University
Pusan 606-701
Korea
Tel +82-51-400-2-320
Fax +82-51-405-9-405 or 406

Malaysia

Dr Baharudin Omar ( bahar@medic.ukm.my ) is an Associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Science atUniversity Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I teach parasitology and entomology at the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the university. I have done researches on bionomic and biological succession of Malaysia blow flies. My first exposure to forensic entomology was during my brief study at Washington State University under the supervision of Dr. Paul Catts in 1988. I started working in forensic entomology in Malaysia since 1992. Thus far, I have examined 35 cases involving forensic entomology for the determination of PMI. Most of thecases were referred from Kuala Lumpur General Hospital Department of Forensic.

Dr Baharudin Omar
Department of Biomedical Science
Faculty of Allied Health Science
UKM, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Netherlands

Current position: Associate Director, Research & Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands. President of the Netherlands Entomological Society.
Main task now is management of the museum's collections and research. Specializes in scarab taxonomy and ecology (some 80 papers). Interested in all sorts of biodiversity research.
Handles, with his associate J (Hans) Huijbregts, 2-3 forensic cases each year,for technical police departments. Standard guidelines for entomological evidence inventorying (in Dutch) may be retrieved from the above homepage. Lectures onthe subject for police, university students, and the media.

Address:
J Krikken
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum /National Museum of Natural History
PO Box 9517
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
URL of homepage: Bioquest pages

New Zealand

Dallas Bishop ( bishopd@agresearch.cri.nz ) is a scientific officer at AgResearch. She has worked there as an entomologist for over 22 years, mainly with flystrike. She maintains an extensive database on the geographical and seasonal incidence of flystrike in New Zealand. She is currently researching parasitic wasps infecting blowflies, with the aim of using these to control blowfly populations. Because of her extensive experience with blowflies she has been used in forensic cases and in cases involving infected food. She is a member of the New Zealand Forensic Society.
Address:
Dallas Bishop
Scientific Officer
Entomology Group
AgResearch, Wallaceville Animal Research Centre
PO Box 40 063
Upper Hutt
New Zealand

Dr. Trevor K.Crosby ( crosbyt@landcare.cri.nz ), the curator of the N. Z. Arthropod Collection has been involved in forensic entomology for several years. He has experience in proving the country of origin of cannabis imported to the NewZealand (see case history no.21) since 1982, and has been involved in homicide enquiries for about 3 years, and other insect forensic identification for about 10 years. About 3 homicide cases per year. No cannabis importation cases for the last 5 years.
Address:
Trevor K. Crosby
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
Private Bag 92 170
AUCKLAND, New Zealand
Phone: +64-9-849 3660

Norway

Morten Stærkeby ( morten.starkeby@bio.uio.no ) is a graduate student in entomology at the University of Oslo. He has been working for the Dept. of Forensic medicine in Oslo both on a project and as an independent consultant in forensic entomology. Are now an independent consultant in forensic entomology, and have done cases for KRIPOS and other police agencies in Norway. Total experience: 33 cases (3 homicide, several drug overdoses, several suicides,several unidentified remains). Will take cases in Norway, Denmark and Sweden onshort notices, if not occupied with another case. Will also be willing to assist in investigations of war crimes all over the world, preferably as part of a forensic entomology team.
Publications:

Address:
Morten Stærkeby
Div. of Zoology
Dept. of Biology
University of Oslo
Pb 1050 Blindern
0316 Oslo
NORWAY

South Africa

Theuns van der Linde ( vdlindet@dre.nw.uovs.ac.za ) is an associate professor in entomology at the Department of Zoology & Entomology at the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specialises in medical, veterinary and forensic entomology and insect ecology. He initiated research on forensic entomology in South Africa during 1992 and the Forensic Entomology Investigation Team of the University of the Orange Free State (FEITUOFS) was established. To date he attended to more than 140 cases, which included cases of homicide, suicide, patient neglect and stock theft. A few cases of stored product entomology (food) was also investigated. He regularly gives lectures to members of the South African Police Services, at forensic science courses and is also involved in the annual Forensic Nurse Examiner's Course of the Northern Cape Institute for Forensic Studies in Nursing. He lecturers forensic entomology at graduate and post-graduate level and is currently developing a post-graduate course in forensic sciences. He is also a provisional member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Address:
Prof. Theuns C. van der Linde
Department of Zoology & Entomology
University of the Orange Free State
P.O. Box 339
Bloemfontein 9300
South Africa
Tel: +27-51-401-2566 (Work)
Fax: +27-51-448-8711 (Work)
Tel/Fax: +27-51-444-0115 (Home)
E-mail: vdlindet@dre.nw.uovs.ac.za
Web-page: http://www.uovs.ac.za/nat/zent/Staff/t-vdl.htm

Mervyn W. Mansell ( vrehmwm@plant5.agric.za ) is a professional entomologist specializing in medical,vetrinary and forensic entomology. He collaborate closely with the South African Police Services,as a consultant, mainly in cases of homicide, but also in cash-in-transit heists and stock theft. In the past three years about 50 homicides was investigated, including three serial killings involving 23 victims. Lectures are provided for the SAPS officer training course and universities on the rationale and implementation of entomology to forensic entomology science. He has developed a forensic entomology database, which was presented during the International Seminar of Forensic Entomology in 1998.

Address:
Mervyn W. Mansell
Plant Protection Research Institute
Private Bag X134
Pretoria
0001 Pretoria

Martin H. Villet ( zomv@hippo.ru.ac.za ) lectures forensic entomology as an undergraduate course. Current researchhas involved two lines of work: (i) using GIS to predict distributions offorensically significant insects; (ii) faunal studies of roadkills andeuthenased domestic animals; and (iii) identifying insects for urban and commercial cases e.g. insurance claims.

Address:
Martin H. Villet
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140 RSA

Spain

Jesus Agudo ( jao@nexo.es ) is an forensic anthropologist in Spain and he has been working in forensic entomology and forensic anthropology for over six years.He works every year in about 80-100 cases of forensic entomology.He works at the National Institute of Toxicology (Instituto Nacional de Toxicologia) inMadrid.

Address:
Jesus Agudo
Instituto Nacional de Toxicologia
c/Luis Cabrera 9
28002 MADRID
SPAIN

Concha Magaña ( mcnm136@mncn.csic.es

) is a forensic entomologist at the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropologyin the Institute of Forensic Anatomy in Madrid.

Address:
Concha Magaña
Laboratorio de Antropologia Forense.
Instituto Anatomico Forense
Ciudad Universitaria s/n
E-28040 MADRID
SPAIN

Marta Saloña ( zopsabom@lg.ehu.es

) Dr. Saloña is a soil biologist and is working on Forensic Entomology at the University of the Basque Country since 2000. Membership of the European Association for Forensic Entomology (EAFE) since 2003. She collaborates actively in specific case studies and focus her research in standardise culture methods to estimate the development time for species related to corpse decomposition in Northern Spain..

Address:
Marta Saloña
Dpto de Zoología y Dinámica Celular Animal
UPV-EHU
Bilbao
España

María Dolores García ( mdgarcia@um.es

) Entomologist specializing in forensic entomology at the Zoology Department of the University of Murcia (Spain). Current research has involved the life cycles of forensically significant Diptera and the structure and dynamics of the sarcosaprophagous fauna in Iberian Peninsula. Her team has collaborated, as consultant, with the Institute of Legal Mecicine of Murcia. She lecturers forensic entomology at graduate and post-graduate level.

Address:
Dr. Mª Dolores García
Área de Zoología
Facultad de Biología
Universidad de Murcia
30100 Murcia. Spain
Tel.: +34 968 364207
Fax: +34 968 363963
e-mail: mdgarcia@um.es
http://www.um.es/grzba/forense/index.htm

Switzerland

Claude Wyss ( cwyss@worldcom.ch ) is an inspector in the scientific department of criminal police in Lausanne, specialised in forensic entomology. He is the only person practising forensic entomology in Switzerland.

Address:
Claude Wyss
Inspecteur
Police criminelle
Rue de l'Academie 3
1014 Lausanne
SUISSE
E-mail: cwyss@worldcom.ch

Thailand ( Bangkok )

Dr. Daniel G. Maiello ( dmaiello@hotmail.com ) is a Department of Defense (DoD) entomologist. He travels regularly to DoD bases which are located in Spain, Italy, Greece, UK, Bahrain, Egypt, Panama, and Puerto Rico where he solves practical entomology and other applied biology problems including forensics. He has over forty years of experience in this field.

United Kingdom

Dr. Bryan Turner ( bryan.d.turner@kcl.ac.uk ) forensic entomology research interests developed from his teaching contributions to the MSc course in Forensic Science at King's College. The stage of development of blowfly larvae on a corpse can be valuable in determining the post mortem interval. He is particularly concerned with the impact that population density has on the developmental rate as a result of raised temperatures in dense larval masses. This has implications for scene of crime protocols and requires considerable further investigation to model the various interactions that potentially impact onpost mortem interval calculations.
He has given invited lectures on forensic entomology in the UK and China. His links with the subject has been mainly academic although contacts with the police are developing.
He is currently collaborating with Dr. M. Hall at the Natural History Museum, London, to investigate the fine grain spatial patterning of sarcophagous species in an urban setting and to develop a database of information on insects of value in urban forensic entomology.

Turner B.D. (1987) Forensic entomology: insects against crime. ScienceProgress (Oxford), 71:133-144
Turner B.D. (1991) Forensic entomology. Forensic Science Progress 5:129-152
Turner B.D. and Howard T. (1992 ) Metabolic heat generation in dipteran larval aggregations: a consideration for forensic entomology. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 6:179-181

Address:
Dr. Bryan Turner ( bryan.d.turner@kcl.ac.uk )
Senior Lecturer in Entomology and Ecology,
Division of Life Sciences,
King's College,
University of London,
Campden Hill Road,
Kensington, London W8 7AH, UK

Dr Martin J.R. Hall (mjrh@nhm.ac.uk) and his colleagues at the Natural History Museum receives several forensic entomology enquiries, both from Police forces and lawyers. These generallyrelate to putting a name and an age on fly larvae removed from corpses. Martin J.R. Hallis involved in lecturing on forensic entomology to the Police (advanced detective training courses) and to graduate students on forensic science courses in England and Scotland. He is presently collaborating with Dr Bryan Turner of King's College, London, on a number of initiatives to investigate the urban biology of calliphorids in relation to their role in forensicentomology.

Address:
Dr Martin J.R. Hall (mjrh@nhm.ac.uk)
Head of Medical & Veterinary Division,
Department of Entomology,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London, SW7 5BD, UK

USA

Alabama

Jeff Wells ( jwells@uab.edu √ ) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Since 1986 most of his research hasconcerned the biology and systematics of carrion flies, with 5-10 criminalcases per year. Current (1999) forensic research projects are the development of statistical methods for postmortem interval estimation and the use of DNA to identify insect and human specimens. His lab web page is at www.dpo.uab.edu/~jwells/FBL.html.

Address:
Jeffrey D. Wells, Associate Professor
Department of Justice Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
901 S. 15th Street, OB15 101
Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Receptionist: 205-934-2069
Direct: 205-934-8538
Fax: 205-934-2067
E-mail jwells@uab.edu
WWW: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~jwells/FBL.html

Arkansas

Sherah VanLaerhoven ( svanlae@comp.uark.edu ) is an active forensic entomologist in the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and her Master of Pest Management in forensic entomology at Simon Fraser University under Dr. Gail Anderson. She has been working in the field of forensic entomology since 1992. Her experience in this field include research, teaching, training and casework. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas.

Selected Publications:
VanLaerhoven, S.L. and G.S. Anderson. Insect Succession on buried carrion in two biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia. (submitted tothe Journal of Forensic Sciences, January 1998)

VanLaerhoven, S.L. and G.S. Anderson. Successional biodiversity of grave fauna on buried carrion in two biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia. (submitted to Environmental Entomology, January 1998)

VanLaerhoven, S.L. Successional biodiversity in insect species on buried carrion in the Vancouver and Cariboo regions of British Columbia. Master of Pest Management thesis. Centre for Pest Management,Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. April 1997.

VanLaerhoven, S.L. and G.S. Anderson. Soil type or biogeoclimatic zone? Factors influencing insect succession in buried carrion. Boreus -Bulletin of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. 16 (2): 8December 1996

Anderson, G.S. and S.L. VanLaerhoven. Initial studies on insectsuccession on carrion in Southwestern British Columbia. Journal ofForensic Sciences 41 (4) : 617-625 July 1996
VanLaerhoven, S.L. and G.S. Anderson. Forensic Entomology - Determining time of death in buried homicide victims using insect succession. Technical Report, Canadian Police Research Centre. March 1996. 81pp.

VanLaerhoven, S.L. and G.S. Anderson. Insects and Internment: the effect of burial on insect colonization of carrion and implications forforensic entomology. Boreus - Bulletin of the Entomological Society ofBritish Columbia. 15 (2): 28 December 1995

Address:
Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, B.Sc. M.P.M. R.P.Bio.
Department of Entomology, A-321
University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR USA 72701

Colorado

Boris Kondratieff ( bkondrat@shep.agsci.colostate.edu ), an associate professor and curator, is working with forensic entomology in the state of Colorado. He is involved in 6-10 cases each year, most of which is homicide, some of which is myiasis. He has been working with forensic entomology since about 1983.

District of Columbia

Alan R. Olsen ( aolsen@bangate.fda.gov ) is a forensic entomologist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He has over 25 years of experience in the identification and development of trace evidence such as whole insects, microscopic fragments of insects and animal hairs in food matrices. He is editor of two textbooks and author of 40 articles on various topics including hair and scat identification; insect morphology;insect, mite and spider identification; laboratory and field methods for the collection, examination and analysis of trace evidence; and forensic evidence development. He is currently developing field techniques for the rapid identification and forensic documentation of disease-carrying flies and other insects. He is also President of the Kerallang Natural History Institute in the Palau Islands and has published articles on the blow flies and spiders of Palau.

Address:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mail Stop: HFS-315
200 C Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20204
U.S.A.

Florida

Jason H. Byrd ( jhbyrd@forensic-entomology.com ), Ph.D., DABFE is a forensic entomologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also currently serves on the graduate faculty at the University of Florida. Dr. Byrd is the second person in the United States to receive a curriculum directed MS and Ph.D. in forensic entomology. He received the Master of Science degree with a minor in Criminology and Law. His doctoral program had an emphasis in forensic botany and forensic anthropology. His research involves the development of flies of forensic importance and the creation of a computer simulation program to model insect development on human cadavers. He is also involved in the development of educational tools for law enforcement personnel. He has published the Forensic Insect Identification Cards, and served as the lead editor of "Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations".

Hawaii

Madison Lee Goff ( lgoff@hawaii.edu √ ) is a professor of entomology in the Dept. of Entomology,University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is actively working in the field of forensic entomology and is a recognised world authority on the mites of the family Trombiculidae. In forensic entomology he has specialized in determining postmortem intervals and the uses of insects as alternate specimens for toxicological analyses. He is a member of the Council of American ForensicEntomologists.

Address:
M. Lee Goff, Ph.D.
Dept. of Entomology
University of Hawaii, Manoa
3050 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822

Illinois

Bernard Greenberg ( bugaboo@uic.edu ) is Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a national lecturer for Sigma Xi in forensic entomology. Dr. Greenberg is a world authority on the biology of flies as forensic indicators. He is the author of a two volume work entitled "Flies and Disease" published by Princeton University Press. Professor Greenberg is featured in a BBC documentary variously titled "Creatures and Crime" and "The Witness was a Fly". He has testified throughout the United States, including Hawaii, and in Canada as an expert witness in more than 25 capital cases and has consulted in more than 60 capital cases.

Address:
Dr. Bernard Greenberg
Department of Biological Sciences, M/C 066
University of Illinois at Chicago

Indiana

Ralph Williams ( ralph_williams@entm.purdue.edu ) have been working with forensic entomology since 1985. He is mostly involved in researching and training, and has been involved in 100+ cases. They have published 5-6 scientific articles on the subject, and numerous popular press articles.He also presents talks on forensic entomology on highschools.

Neal H. Haskell ( blowfly@technologist.com ) PhD, DABFE (a private forensic consultant), by means of workshops, lectures and seminars (over 200 world wide), has attempted to bring together many years of experience in entomology and law enforcement to provide coroners, death scene investigators, crime scene technicians and others with valuable information regarding recognition, recovery, collection, preservation, and handling ofentomological evidence. He has acted as a private consultant in over 400 death investigations (from 33 States, 2 Provinces and three additional countries) and has qualified as an expert witness in both federal and state courts in 12 states and in Canada (serving as the Chief Forensic Entomology Consultant for the Office of the Chief Coroner, Ontario). Dr. Haskell is a research associate with the University of Indianapolis, a graduate faculty advisor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University, East Lancing. He obtained the first curriculum directed Master of Science degree and Ph.D. in Forensic Entomology inthe U.S. studing blow fly distribution and environmental temperature assessments for developmental estimates.

Louisiana

C. Lamar Meek ( lmeek@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU ) is a LSU entomology professor. His 16 years of forensic entomology experience include theteaching of a semester course, giving lecturesand workshops, directing graduate research,testifying in homicide cases and advising police and wildlife agencies on insect evidence.He is a Board Certified Entomologist through the Entomological Society of America.

Address
C. Lamar Meek, PhD.
Department of Entomology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Michigan

Clifford Beninger ( beninger@pilot.msu.edu )has a Ph.D in chemical ecology, with a masters degreeon the carrion beetles Silphidae, in particular Nicrophorus beetles. He can identify silphids and mites, and give valuable information of their ecology, especially in the Ottawa region. He has currently been involved in one case,were he identified Nicrophorus beetles and mites associated with a homicide.

Address:
Dr. Clifford W. Beninger
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
United States Dept. of Agriculture ARS
Sugarbeet, Bean and Cereal Research < soil and crop of>Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
USA 48824-1325

Dr. Richard Merritt ( 22951mgr@ibm.cl.msu.edu ) has an Ph.D. in Medical Entomology and Parasitology at University of California,Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Entomology at Michigan State University,and has specialized in aquatic insects, especially larvae of mosquitoes and blackflies.
He handles approximately 5-7 forensic cases a year, generally homicides, some myiasis. He is a member of the Council of American Forensic Entomologists.

Address:
Dr. Richard Merritt
Department of Entomology
243 Natural Sciences Building
Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-355-8309
Fax: 517-353-4354
http://www.ent.msu.edu/dept/faculty/Merritt/

Missouri

Robert D. Hall ( agrhall@muccmail.missouri.edu ) is a professor of Entomology at theUniversity of Missouri with a Ph.D. in Entomology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He has over 20 yearsinvolvement in forensic entomology in both criminal and civil matters.He is a member of the Council of American Forensic Entomologists.

Address:
Robert D. Hall
Department of Entomology
1-87 Agr. Building
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65201

New York

Dr. Mark Benecke ( mark@benecke.com ) has been working at the Insitute for Zoology of theUniversity of Cologne where he received his M.Sc. and continued to work atthe Institute for Legal Medicine at the University of Cologne where hereceived his Ph.D.. Currently, he is working at the Office of Chief MedicalExaminer in New York City in the Department of Forensic Biology. Hetestfied as an FE expert witness in several high profile cases in Germany,and he performs FE training for students, the police and M.D.s. Many of hispublications in the field are available online athttp://www.benecke.com/maden.html

Address:
Dr Mark Benecke
Office of Chief Medical Examiner
520 First Avenue
NY, NY 10016
USA
email: mark@benecke.com

James Clery ( jamesclery@HOTMAIL.COM ) is a forensic biologist with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), New York City. He is currently conducting experimentation with regard to Dipteran species olfactory responses to carrion in urban environments. Analysis of decomposed human bodies is also an ongoing pursuit. He is also involved with forensic botany research.

Address:
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
520 First Avenue
Forensic Biology Department
New York, NY 10016 USA

Pennsylvania

Stephen W. Bullington ( 75037.2724@CompuServe.com ) is an entomologist with a wide variety of entomological and arachnologicalinterests. He was trained as a systematic Dipterist and has written manyscientific papers on flies of the family Asilidae. He has been working on forensically-important flies for three years. He was responsible for organizing Penn State's 1993 and 1994 workshops on forensic entomology. Currently, he is running his own consulting business.

Texas

Jack Hayes, Ph.D. ( Hayesj@uthscsa.edu ) is a consultant in forensic entomology at Bexar County Forensic Science Center in San Antonio, Texas and a professor in Medical Entomology at the University of Texas.He received his Ph.D. in 1973, and got interested in forensic entomology in 1990. He does a few cases each year, but hope to do more.

Address
Jack Hayes, Ph.D.
Bexar County Forensic Science Center
7337 Louis Pasteur Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229-4565

UT- Houston School of Public Health
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78284-7976
TEL: (210) 567-5930
FAX: (210) 567-5942

Elizabeth Richards ( y1enr@ttacs.ttu.edu ) is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate inthe Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. She completedher Master's Degree in Entomology at the University of Hawaii under thedirection of Dr. M. Lee Goff. Her research interests include documentingarthropod succession patterns at exposed carrion in varying habitats.Currently, she is conducting routine decomposition studies in Texas. Herdissertation research also includes an investigation into the geographic (orintraspecific) variation among blow fly populations using both morphometricand molecular techniques.

Currently, she is working as a consultant to the Lubbock County MedicalExaminer's Office. In 1999, she was called in on 8 cases, two ofwhich dealt with felony homicide.

Address:
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Box 43131
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3131
806 742 2382

Virginia

Washington

Elmer Paul Catts, one of the pioneers in forensic entomology in the US, died April 5, in Pulman, Washington. He became 66 years old. He will be missed.

World Wide

This category includes forensic entomologists that are willing and able to travel to other countries to consult in forensic entomology cases.

Mark Benecke ( mark@benecke.com ) is an international consultant for forensic biology. He has worked as a forensic biologist at the Chief Medical Examiner´s Office in New York City, in Köln (Germany), and in Manila (Philippines). Many of his findings are published in international forensic journals, and most of them are mirrored at his FE page.
Mark Benecke is not only interested in estimation of PMI but also in hygienical and related questions which can be solved by arthropod examination. Furthermore, he put a complete collection of all historic FE articles (and a bibliography) together.
Although forensic entomology is not used routinely in Germany, police is getting more and more interested in the subject, and for that reason Dr Benecke has taught forensic entomology at several State Police Schools.
Currently, Dr Benecke works as a Guest Editor on the Forensic Entomology Special Issue of Forensic Science International that will be published in 2001, and on two forensic handbook articles dealing with FE.

BENECKE M (1998) Six forensic entomology cases: description and commentary. Journal of Forensic Sciences 43, 797-805 - extra case: J Forensic Sci (1998) 43:1303
BENECKE M (1998) Random Amplified Polymporphic DNA (RAPD) typing of necrophageous insects (Diptera, Coleoptera) in criminal forensic studies: validation and use in praxi. Forensic Science International 98:157-68
BENECKE M (1996) Expert insect identification in cases of decomposed bodies. (In German text.) Archiv für Kriminologie 198:99-109
BENECKE M (1997) Collecting insects, spiders and crustaceans for criminal forensic study. (In German text.) Archiv für Kriminologie 199:167-176
BENECKE M (1998) Use of insect evidence in history and in Europe´s forensic medicine - a short survey. (In German text.) Rechtsmedizin 8:153-155
BENECKE M, LECLERCQ M (1999) Roots of Forensic Entomology until the turn of the century. (In German text.) Rechtsmedizin 9:41-45
BENECKE M, SEIFERT B (1999) Forensic Entomology in a high profile murder case. (In German text.) Archiv für Kriminologie
More Benecke FE articles, and a few articles on his work.