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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. |
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Rachelle Turiello June, 2022 Congratulations to Rachelle awarded a Young Investigator Award (YIA) at the International Society for Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS) Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. |
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Rachelle Turiello April, 2022 Congratulations to Rachelle awarded 3rd place at this year's 3rd year PhD student poster session for the poster titled, "A Microfluidic Tool for the Deamination of Cytosines for Epigenetic Analysis." |
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Renna Nouwairi April, 2022 Congratulations to Renna Nouwairi. Jefferson Scholar Foundation awarded to the most promising graduate students in the country; those who will make exceptional contributions to the University of Virginia and to society at large after graduation. |
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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." |
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Killian O'Connell
January, 2022 Congratulations to Killian O’Connell for placing 2nd overall at the International Bordetella Lab Meeting (IBLM) 3 Minute Thesis Competition for her talk entitled, “Whooping Cough: It’s Time to See it Coming”. |
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Killian O'Connell
December, 2021 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for being awarded the Capital Local Section Pre-Doctoral Student Award 2021 by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Rachelle Turiello
October, 2021 Congratulations to Rachelle Turiello for being selected to present her poster entitled, "A Microfluidic Method for Rapid SARS-CoV-2 RNA Preparation " at the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2021. |
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Killian O'Connell
October, 2021 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for being selected to present her poster entitled, "Development of a Rapid, On-SIte Diagnostic Assay for Bordetella spp." at the 1st Diagnostics for Global Health Workshop 2021. |
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Tiffany Layne
July, 2021 Congratulations to Tiffany Layne for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Microscale mRNA Amplification, Separation and Detection for Forensic and Clinical Point-of-Care Applications". |
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Shane Woolf
July, 2021 "Congratulations to Shane Woolf for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Expanding the Centrifugal Microfluidic Toolbox through Enhanced Functionality and Advanced Unit Operations". |
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Jamila Marshall Roberts
June, 2021 Congratulations to Jamila Marshall Roberts for being selected as a recipient of the Southern Regional Education (SREB) Dissertation Award. |
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Leah Dignan
April, 2021 Congratulations to Leah Dignan for being selected as the recipient of the Sidney M. Hecht Fellowship by the Graduate Studies Committee, in recognition of her achievements within the Chemistry Department program. |
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Rachelle T., Larissa C., Scott K.
February, 2021 Congratulations to Rachelle Turiello, Larissa Cunha, and Scott Karas for their successful completion of the 2nd Year UVA Chemistry Graduate Candidacy Examination. |
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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. |
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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." |
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Killian O'Connell
December, 2020 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for receiving funding from the Fall 2020 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Council (GSASC) Research Grant. |
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Leah Dignan
February, 2020 Congratulations to Leah Dignan for being selected to present her work at AAFS 2020 as a talk entitled, "The Development and Automation of a Swab In-DNA Out Platform Using Dynamic Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)". |
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Jamila Marshall Roberts
February, 2020 Congratulations to Jamila Marshall Roberts for being selected to present her work at AAFS 2020 as a talk entitled, "A Microfluidic Device for the Identification of Biological Sex by Analysis of Fingermarks". |
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Tiffany Layne
February, 2020 Congratulations to Tiffany Layne for being selected to give a talk of her work entitled, "Integration of Microchip Electrophoresis and a Validated Messenger RNA Panel as a Novel Approach to Forensic Body Fluid Identification" AAFS 2020. |
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Renna Nouwairi
February, 2020 Congratulations to Renna Nouwairi for her successful completion of the 2nd Year UVA Chemistry Graduate Candidacy Examination. |
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Sadie Kiendzior
February, 2020 Congratulations to Sadie Kiendzior for her successful completion of the 2nd Year UVA Chemistry Graduate Candidacy Examination. |
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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". |
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Killian O'Connell
October, 2019 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for being selected to present her work at MicroTAS 2019 for her poster entitled, "Separation and Chromogenic Detection of Mixed Illicit Drug Samples for Point-of-Interdiction testing". |
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Leah Dignan
October, 2019 Congratulations to Leah Dignan for being selected to present her work at MicroTAS 2019 for her talk entitled, "Automation and Integration of a Centrifugal Microdevice for DNA Purification using Dynamic Solid Phase Extraction and Novel-Actuated Valving". |
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Killian O'Connell
October, 2019 Congratulations to Killian O'Connell for winning first place at the 2nd Annual Chemistry Department Retreat for her talk entitled "Illicit Drug Separations and Detection". |
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Charlie Clark
August, 2019 Congratulations to Charlie Clark, PhD for defending his graduate thesis entitled, "Microfluidic Applications in Forensic Science." |
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Shane Woolf
April, 2019 Congratulations to Shane Woolf for winning third place at the Department of Chemistry 3rd Year Poster Session for his poster entitled "Development of a Rapid, Microfluidic Method for the Automated processing of Sexual Assault Evidence". |
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Anchi Tsuei
April, 2019 Congratulations to Anchi Tsuei for winning second place overall at UVA's annual 3 Minute Thesis Competition for her talk entitled "Rapid Screening of Sexual Assault Kits to End the Backlog". |
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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". |
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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). |
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Shane Woolf
June, 2018 Shane Woolf presented his poster entitled, "Towards a Fully Automated Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for DNA Purification Using Dynamic Solid Phase Extraction and Novel Laser Actuated Valving" at the 2018 Forensic Analysis of Human DNA Gordon Research Conference (GRC). |
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Anchi Tsuei
June, 2018 Anchi Tsuei presented her poster entitled, "Rapid Screening of Human Male DNA via Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification" at the 2018 Forensic Analysis of Human DNA Gordon Research Conference (GRC). |
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Charlie Clark
June, 2018 Congratulations to Charlie Clark for winning first place overall at the 2018 Forensic Analysis of Human DNA Gordon Research Conference (GRC) for his poster entitled "Improvements in Acoustic Differential Extraction of Sexual Assault Samples". |
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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". |
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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. |
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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". |
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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". |
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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. |
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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." |
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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." |
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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. |
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David Dent
March, 2017 David Dent is featured in an article for UVA Today in recognition of his excellence as a QuestBridge Scholar. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
