Recent News
3/2013
The Venton lab was well represented at the Huskey Graduate Research Symposium.  Eve Privman took a second place award for her poster and Ashley Ross and Alex Zestos received third place awards for oral presentations. 
3/2013
Six members of the lab and Dr. Venton go to Pittcon in Philadelphia.   Ashley Ross, Chris Jacobs, Ning Xiao, Michael Nguyen, Maddie Denno and Alex Zestos all gave oral presentations on their work.  Dr. Venton talked about our adenosine sensing work as well as microfluidics experiments in the classroom.     
3/2013
Ashley Ross receives a GSAS travel award and Chris Jacobs receives a SEAC travel award to attend Pittcon.    
3/2013
The Venton lab started off March by helping host the Microscale Bioseparations (MSB 2013) conference on the campus here at UVA.  Many group members volunteered to help the conference go smoothly.  Maddie Denno, Chris Jacobs and Dr. Venton put on a workshop on "Electrochemical Detection for Capillary and Microchip Electrophoresis."   
2/2013
Undergraduate researcher Kate Roche receives a Harrison Award for undergraduate research.  She'll be using that award to continue her research on the affect of adenosine receptors on dopamine release this summer.   
2/2013
The Venton lab took lots of field trips trips this month!  Eve Privman went to Janelia Farm (HHMI) to start a collaboration on Drosophila neurochemistry, Chris and Alex went to Oak Ridge National Lab to grow carbon nanotubes for electrodes.  Dr. Venton went to University of Minnesota as the student invited analytical chemistry speaker.       
12/2012
Check out the new lab picture from our annual Christmas party (which also served as a graduation party for Dr. Jacobs this year)!  Also included: some lab children, future scientists for sure.     
11/2012
Four new first year chemistry graduate students join the Venton lab: Scott Lee, Poojan Pyakurel, Hillary Rees and Cheng Yang.  Along with Eve Privman, a MSTP Neuroscience student who joined this fall, that means we have a full house!   
11/2012
Chris Jacobs successfully defends his PhD thesis!  Congratulations Dr. Jacobs.  He'll be sticking around the lab as a postdoc for the next few year months.   
11/2012
A paper by Dr. Megan Pajski on stimulated adenosine release throughout the brain is accepted to Purinergic Signaling. 
10/2012
Dr. Venton travels to University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to give a departmental seminar. 
10/2012
Jill Venton travels to Janelia farm to present an invited seminar and explore collaborations measuring neurotransmitters in Drosophila. 
9/2012
Michael Ngyuen and Jill Venton travel to London, England for the Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience Conference. 
8/2012
The Venton lab has 2 new research technicians who are recent graduates.  Merrick Kozak is working on the fly project and Matt Ryals is working on the adenosine/in vivo project.  Welcome.     
8/2012
Collaborative work with Kasia Glanowska and Sue Moenter on detecting gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) with FSCV is accepted to the Journal of Neuroscience.   



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