Mónica, Meghan, Dr. Musah, Megan and Amy at NEAFS.

Professor Musah, Meghan, Amy, Megan and Mónica traveled to Lancaster, PA to present at the 2019 Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Meeting. Professor Musah, Meghan, Amy and Megan presented talks titled “Ruffling a Few Feathers: Forensic Identification of Illegally Traded Endangered Macaw Species Using Direct Analysis in Real Time – Mass Spectrometry”, “Pharm to Table: Mass Spectral Analysis of Synthetically-derived Psychoactive Materials”, “Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS Derived Chemical Signatures of Carrion Insects to Establish Insect Species Identity to Facilitate Postmortem Interval Determination” and “Spice Up Your Life – An Ambient Mass Spectral Technique for the Rapid Detection and Quantification of Psychoactive Compounds in Pepper Plant and Magic Mint-derived Complex Matrices” respectively. Mónica presented a poster titled “Trippin’ on Tryptamines: The Use of Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS Data for Identification of a Subset of Psychoactive Substances”. Meghan also received the Carol de Forest Student Research Grant.