Career Goals: I hope to return to industry and work on developing point-of-care clinical diagnostic microfluidic tools.
Values: Integrity, Collaboration, Ambition
Hometown: Littleton, Colorado
Reason for Choosing UVA: I have strong family ties to the school and am excited to be in a lab where I can use my engineering background to build on the current research.
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Rachelle Turiello September, 2022 Congratulations to Rachelle awarded Best Oral Presentation for her talk at the 29th Congress of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG) in Washington, DC. Her oral presentation was titled A novel rotationally-driven microfluidic approach for forensic epigenetic sample preparation for human chronological age determination. |
Rachelle Turiello February, 2022 Congratulations to Rachelle has been selected to give a talk at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 74th Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle, Washington in February 2022, titled, "The Optimization of a Rotationally-Driven Microfluidic Method for Forensic DNA Methylation Sample Preparation." |
Jamila Marshall Roberts
October, 2021 Congratulations to Jamila Marshall Roberts for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Microfluidic Device for the Identification of Biological Sex by Analysis of Latent Fingermark Deposits" at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
Larissa Cunha
October, 2021 Congratulations to Larissa Cunha for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Development of an Automated Sexual Assault Evidence Preparation Microdevice with Novel Laser-Actuated Valving" at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
Killian O'Connell
October, 2021 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Development of an Automated, Point-of-Care Diagnostic Assay for Rapid Detection of Bordetella spp." at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
Sadie Kiendzior
October, 2021 Congratulations to Sadie Kiendzior for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Acoustic Differential Extraction with Real-Time Feedback for Enhanced Sperm Cell Capture from Sexual Assault Kits" at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
Renna Nouwairi
October, 2021 Congratulations to Renna Nouwairi for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Ultra-Rapid Real-Time Microfluidic PCR Instrument for Clinical and Forensic Applications" at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
Rachelle Turiello
January, 2021 Congratulations to Rachelle Turiello for being awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The GRF program fosters the professional development of criminal justice researchers and supports original research proposals that have direct implications for criminal justice in the United States, particularly at the state and local levels. |
Rachelle Turiello
December, 2020 Congratulations to Rachelle Turiello for being awarded the 2020-21 Forensic Sciences Foundation (FSF) Jan S. Bashinski Criminalistics Graduate Thesis Assistance Grant for her paper, "Epi-PrepDise: A Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for Forensic DNA Methylation Sample Preparation for Chronological Age Prediction." |
Jamila Marshall Roberts
October, 2019 Congratulations to Jamila Marshall Roberts for being chosen to present her poster, at the Merck Rising Stars in Analytical Chemistry and Materials Science Symposium in Rahway, New Jersey, for her poster entitled "Microfluidic Device for the Identification of Biological Sex by Analysis of Fingermarks". |
Leah Dignan
March, 2019 Congratulations to Leah Dignan for winning first place overall at the 35th International Symposium on Microscale Separations and Bioanalysis (MSB) for her poster entitled "Development of an Automated Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for DNA Purification using Dynamic SPE and Novel Actuated Valving". |
Anchi Tsuei & Tiffany Layne
September, 2018 Anchi Tsuei and Tiffany Layne were selected to present their talk entitled, 'Development of a Novel Isothermal Amplification Panel for Cost-effective and Rapid Body Fluid Identification' for a webinar with the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence: Cutting-Edge Research in Forensic DNA Analysis from Early-Career Scientists. Anchi Tsuei
November, 2018 Anchi Tsuei presented her poster entitled, "Automated Microchannel Alignment Using Innate Laser-Induced Fluorescence Signature for Microchip Electrophoresis" at the 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemical and Life Sciences (uTAS). |
Tiffany Layne
June, 2018 Congratulations to Tiffany Layne for winning third place overall at the 2018 Forensic Analysis of Human DNA Gordon Research Conference (GRC) for her poster entitled "Development of a Novel Isothermal Amplification Panel for Cost Effective and Rapid Body Fluid Identification and Y-Screening". |
Charlie Clark
May, 2018 Congratulations to Charlie Clark for being awarded the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2018. The Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate student fellowship offered at the University of Virginia. Jefferson Fellowships are designed to identify Ph.D. candidates who demonstrate outstanding achievement and the highest promise. |
Charlie Clark
January, 2017 Charlie Clark travelled to the West Palm Beach Sheriff's Office (PBSO) forensic laboratory for external evaluation of the SONIC system, an analytical instrument capable of separating sperm cells from epithelial cell lysate using acoustic force. The instrument was also sent to the Mesa Police Department for testing. |