104. de Menezes MMT, Balbino MA, Castro AS, Eleotério IC, Demets GJF, de Oliveira OV, Ipólito,AJ,. McCord, BR: de Oliveira, MF. Chemically Modified Piezoelectric Devices to Detect Seized Marijuana and Cocaine Samples: A New Tool for Forensic Chemistry. SM J Forensic Res Criminol. 2017; 1(1): 1003.

103. Carnes, S; O’Brien, S; Rowe, WF; McCord, B., Lurie, IS. A Comparison of UHPSFC, UHPLC, and GC for the Separation of Synthetic Cathinones, J. Separation Science, in press.

102. Martinez, V; Nori, D; Dimsoski, P.; McCord, B. Pressure based alkaline lysis with immunocapture, a method for enhanced recovery in differential extraction, Electrophoresis, in press.

101. Wang, L.; McCord, B. An aptamer based paper microfluidic device for the colorimetric determination of cocaine, Electrophoresis, in revision.

100. Lilliana I. Moreno and Bruce McCord, Understanding metal inhibition: The effect of copper (Cu²⁺) on DNA containing samples and a proposed solution, Forensic Chemistry, 2017, 4, Pages 89–95.

99. Hussain Alghanim; Joana Antunes; Deborah Soares Bispo Santos Silva; Clarice Sampaio Alho; Kuppareddi Balamurugan; Bruce McCord. Detection and evaluation of DNA methylation markers found at SCGN and KLF14 loci to estimate human age, FSI Genetics, in revision.

98. Mostwatt, T; McCord, B. Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) as a Method for the Toxicological Analysis of Synthetic Cannabinoids, Talanta. 2017, 164, 396-402.

97. MA Balbino et al., Voltammetric detection of 9-THC using carbon screen printed electrode in aqueous media: improvements in forensic analysis, Sensors & Transducers Journal, 2016, 207(12) 73-78.

96. Gibson-Daw, G., Albani, P., Gassmann, M., McCord,B. Rapid microfluidic analysis of a Y-STR multiplex for screening of forensic samples, Anal Bioanal Chem 2016. doi:10.1007/s00216-016-9950-9.

95. Fu, H. ; McCord, BR. Separation and analysis of antidepressants by acrylate-based monolithic column capillary electrochromatography with UV detection, Electrophoresis,2016, 37, 2882-2890.

94. Sang-Eun Jung; Sohee Cho; Joana Antunes; Iva Gomes; Mari L. Uchimoto; Yu Na Oh; Lisa Di Giacomo; Peter M. Schneider; Min Sun Park; Dieudonne van der Meer; Graham Williams; Bruce McCord; Hee-Jung Ahn; Dong Ho Choi; Yang-Han Lee; Soong Deok Lee; Hwan Young Lee. A collaborative exercise on DNA

methylation based body fluid typing, Electrophoresis, 2016, 37, 2759-2766.

93. Antunes, J. Deborah S.B.S. Silva K. Balamurugan; G. Duncan, C. S. Alho, B. McCord, Forensic discrimination of vaginal epithelia using bisulfite modified PCR and pyrosequencing, Electrophoresis,2016, 37, 2751-2758.

92. Deborah S.B.S. Silva, Joana Antunes, K. Balamurugan; G. Duncan, C. S. Alho, B. McCord^.Developmental validation studies of epigenetic DNA methylation markers for the detection of blood, semen and saliva samples, Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2016 Jul;23:55-63.

91. Breitenbach, S.;Rowe, WF; McCord, B; Lurie, IS. Assessment of ultra high performance supercritical fluid chromatography as a separation technique for the analysis of seized drugs: Applicability to synthetic cannabinoids, Journal of Chromatography A 2016, 1440, 201–211.

90. Moreno, L.; McCord, B. The use of Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) to assess the levels of inhibitors co-extracted with DNA and the associated impact in quantification and amplification, Electrophoresis, 2016, 37, 2807-2816

89. Zheng, B. ;Fu, H. ;Berry, JP.; McCord, B. A rapid method for separation and identification of microcystins using capillary electrophoresis and time-of-flight mass spectrometry, J. Chrom A, 2016, 1431: 205-214

88. Doctor, E.; McCord, B., The application of supported liquid extraction in the analysis of benzodiazepines using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy., Talanta, 2015, 144, 938-43

87. Musile, G.; Wang, L.; Bottoms, J.; Tagliaro, F.; McCord, B., The development of paper microfluidic devices for presumptive drug detection, Analytical Methods, 2015, 7, 8025-8033.

86. Joana Antunes, Deborah S.B.S. Silva, K. Balamurugan³; G. Duncan, C. S. Alho², B. McCord^.High Resolution Melt analysis of DNA methylation to discriminate semen in biological stains, Analytical Biochemistry, 2016, 494: 40-45

85. Ribeiro, MFM, Jos_Wilmo da Cruz Jfflnior, JWD, Dockal, ER; McCord, BR; de Oliveira, MF, Voltammetric determination of cocaine using carbon screen printed electrodes chemically modified with uranyl Schiff base films, Electroanalysis,2016, 28 (2) : 320-326.

84. Balbino, MA, de Oliveira^,LS, Eleotério,IC; Oiye, EN; Ribeiro, MFM; McCord, BR.; Ipolito, AJ; de Oliveira, MF, Efficacy of voltammetric analysis of Δ⁹-THC for the prevention of false-positive results in seized marijuana presumptive test samples J. Forens Sci, 2016, 61:4 1067-73.

83. Deborah S.B.S. Silva, Joana Antunes, K. Balamurugan; G. Duncan, C. S. Alho, B. McCord^.Evaluation of DNA methylation markers and their potential to predict human aging, Electrophoresis, 2015, 36, 1775-1780.

82. Nori, D.; McCord, B. The application of alkaline lysis and pressure cycling technology in the differential extraction of DNA from sperm and epithelial cells recovered from cotton swabs. Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2015, 407(23), 6975-6984.

Memberships

Editorial Board - Journal of Forensic Sciences, Member; 2008 - present

Deputy Editor - Electrophoresis, Member; 2008 - present

Alpha Chi Sigma Chemistry, Member; 2003 - present

Professional Presentations

Rapid PCR for genotyping; Life in the fast lane; http://www.biotechniques.com/multimedia/webinars/?artId=356407; 2014

Other Professional Activities

Bruce R. McCord is a Professor of Analytical and Forensic Chemistry at Florida International University. Dr. McCord received a BS in Chemistry with honors from the College of William and Mary in 1981, and a Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. His research interests involve forensic genetics, toxicology, and explosives residue detection. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers and 12 book chapters. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, TSWG, and the Department of Homeland Security. He serves as deputy editor for the Journal Electrophoresis and is a current member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Forensic Chemistry and The Journal of Forensic Sciences. In 2008 he was awarded the Paul Kirk Award of the Criminalistics Section of the AAFS.