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Thanatomicrobiome The human thanatomicrobiome is an original term introduced by Dr. Gulnaz Javan in 2014 at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Seattle, Washington. The thanatomicrobiome (thanatos—Greek for death) is characterized by a diverse assortment of microorganisms located in internal organs (brain, heart, liver, and spleen) and blood samples collected after a human dies. It is defined as the microbial community of internal body sites, created by a successional process whereby trillions of microorganisms populate, proliferate, and/or die within the dead body, resulting in temporal modifications in the community composition over time (Javan et al., 2016a, 2016). Javan, G.T., Finley, S.J., Abidin, Z., Mulle, J.G., 2016a. The thanatomicrobiome: a missing piece of the microbial puzzle of death. Frontiers in Microbiology 7. Javan, G.T., Finley, S.J., Can, I., Wilkinson, J.E., Hanson, J.D., Tarone, A.M., 2016b. Human Thanatomicrobiome succession and time since death. Scientific Reports 6.