Our
research program is focused on the development of sensing and sampling
techniques for the detection of new molecules in the brain. We
aim to study the real-time release of many different neurotransmitters
simultaneously and apply these
techniques
to in vivo measurements in
model
neural systems.
Front
Row, Left to Right: Yida Xu, Chris Jacobs, Trisha Vickrey, Megan
Huffman, Kasia Glanowska, Jill Venton
Back Row, Left to
Right: Huaifang Fang, Jay Park, Chris Green, Ben Romer, Xenia Borue
(picture taken May 2009)
Recent
News
10/2009
Megan Huffman travels to Chicago to
present a poster on her adenosine work at the Society for Neuroscience
meeting.
10/2009
Trisha
Vickrey's paper on measuring dopamine release in Drosophila is accepted to Analytical Chemistry.
9/2009
Trisha
Vickrey travels to New York
to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Drosophila
Neurobiology conference. She presents a poster of dopamine detection in
Drosophila.
07/2009
The Venton
group receives an NIH R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health
(National Institute of Mental Health) entitled "Rapid detection of
neurotransmitter changes in Drosophila
melanogaster."
05/2009
Congratulations to Dr. Xenia Borue on
successfully defending her dissertation, becoming the Venton lab's
first doctoral graduate. She is now headed back to medical school
to finish her training in the M.D./Ph.D. program.
03/2009
Trisha
Vickrey wins first prize for physical sciences for her talk at the
Huskey Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!
03/2009
Megan Huffman, Chris Jacobs and Trisha
Vickrey attend Pittcon in Chicago. Megan and Chris have posters
while Trisha presents a talk.
02/2009
Xenia Borue's
paper on detection of serotonin in Drosophila
is accepted to Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
01/2009
An article on
octopamine/tyramine electrochemistry is accepted to the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
Undergraduate researcher Stephanie Cooper and Dr. Venton contributed to
the article.
11/2008
First year
grad student Jennifer Peairs joins the lab.
11/2008
Jill Venton,
Xenia Borue, and Sylvia Cechova attend the Society for Neuroscience
Meeting in Washington D.C. Xenia and Sylvia present posters on
their research.
10/2008
An article by
Megan Huffman on the properties of carbon-fiber microelectrodes is
published in Electroanalysis.
Go to the News Archive to read all the
past Venton lab news.
