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​        "You know, I just think that things have a way of working themselves out." -Walter White
Career Goals I aspire to have a research career in either a government or military settings, developing technology to enhance detection capabilities for dangerous compounds such as explosives or illicit drugs.
Values Loyalty, honesty, and humor.
Hometown ​Fallston, Maryland.
Reason for Choosing UVA I chose UVA to join the Landers lab due to the application-driven nature and relevance of the research to my career goals.
Undergraduate Chris Tomley.
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
​April, 2018
Congratulations to Charlie Clark for winning first place at UVA's annual 3 Minute Thesis Competition for his talk entitled "Reducing the Backlog of Sexual Assault Samples".
Dr. Shannon Krauss
​April 20th, 2018
Congratulations to Shannon Krauss, PhD for defending her graduate thesis entitled "Development of Portable Sample In-Answer Out Microfluidic Systems for On-Site Analyte Detection".
Charlie Clark
​July, 2017
Congratulations to Charlie Clark for being featured in Battling the Backlog: Part II in the July 2017 issue of The Analytical Scientist for his work on SONIC, an analytical instrument capable of separating sperm cells from epithelial cell lysate using acoustic force.
​Dr. Brandon Thompson
​April, 2017
Congratulations to Brandon Thompson, PhD for defending his graduate thesis entitled "The Print, Cut, and Laminate Method: Rapid Microfluidic Prototyping for Clinical and Forensic Applications."
​Jacquelyn DuVall
​April, 2017
Congratulations to Jacquelyn DuVall, PhD for defending her graduate thesis entitled "Rapid Systems for Detection of Pathogen and Human Nucleic Acids via Microfluidic Amplification."
Christopher Birch and Brandon Thompson
​March, 2017
Graduate student Brandon Thompson and Postdoc Chris Birch presented their research at the 33rd International Symposium on Microscale Separations and Bioanalysis in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.
David Dent
​March, 2017
David Dent is featured in an article for UVA Today in recognition of his excellence as a QuestBridge Scholar.
Shannon Krauss, Charlie Clark & Anchi Tsuei
​March, 2017
Graduate students Shannon Krauss, Charlie Clark, and Anchi Tsuei presented their research at Pittcon's 67th Annual International Conference and Exposition in Chicago, IL.
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.
Shannon Krauss
​February 8, 2017

Congratulations to Shannon Krauss for winning the 2017 Adam Ritchie Award for most outstanding graduate student in the UVA Chemistry department.
Kimberly Jackson
​July 21, 2016
Congratulations to Kimberly Jackson, PhD for defending her graduate thesis titled "Advancing Forensic DNA Processing with Optical Detection and Microfluidic Techniques."
Hillary Sloan
May 13, 2016
Congratulations to Hillary Sloane, PhD for defending her graduate thesis titled "Nucleic Acid Analysis via Hybridization-Induced Microbead Aggregation: Opportunities for Genetic Testing."
Brandon Thompson
April 2016
Brandon Thompson's article "Hematocrit analysis through the use of an inexpensive centrifugal polyester-toner device with finger-to-chip blood loading capability" is selected as the featured article for ​Analytica Chimica Acta​.
Daniel Nelson
April 25, 2016
Congratulations to Daniel A. Nelson, PhD for defending his graduate thesis titled "Multi-modal separations for the biosciences"
Shannon Krauss
April 21, 2016
Shannon Krauss presented her research on "An Objective Method for Field-Testing of Illicit Drugs Using Polyester-Toner Rotation-Driven Microdevice and Cell Phone Detection" after winning 2nd place in the chemistry department poster session.
Delphine Le Roux
April 20, 2016
Delphine Le Roux was an invited speaker at the Test400k Forum in Chicago, IL.  She provided an update on new technology that will help reduce the backlog of sexual assault samples currently sitting untested.
Charlie Clark
April 11, 2016
Congratulations to Charlie Clark, who won both the chemistry department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2016, as well as the all-university Dr. Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching.
Shannon Krauss
April 7, 2016
Congratulations to Shannon Krauss for winning 2nd place in the departmental poster contest, for her research titled "An Objective Method for Field-Testing of Illicit Drugs Using Polyester-Toner Rotation-Driven Microdevice and Cell Phone Detection."