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.   
7/2012
Trisha Vickrey successfully defends her PhD thesis.  Congratulations Dr. Vickrey and good luck at Harvard next year as you pursue a Masters in Science Education Policy!
6/2012
Ning Xiao has her paper on aligned CNT electrodes accepted by Analytical Chemistry.  Congratulations Ning!
6/2012
Phuong Vo successfully defends her master's thesis.  Congratulations Phuong!  
6/2012
Dr. Venton and Chris Jacobs travel to Oak Ridge National Lab Center for Nanophase Materials to grow CNTs on wires and carbon fibers. This is our first trip off our funded user project.
6/2012
Dr. Venton travels to Fukuoka, Japan to give a talk at the Purines 2012 meeting. 
5/2012
Dr. Venton travels to Seattle to give a seminar at University of Washington. 
5/2012
Ashley Ross has her paper on Nafion-CNT electrodes for adenosine detection accepted to the Analyst.  Congratulations Ashley. 
3/2012
Many members of the Venton lab travel to Orlando for Pittcon 2012 and give posters and presentations.  Ning, Michael, Trisha, Maddie, Chris and Alex are pictured below with the Manatee statue.  
2/2012
Dr. Venton travels to Shippensburg University to give a seminar.  
1/2012
Trisha Vickrey is awarded a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship to intern in public policy at the National Academy of Science.  This is an extremely competitive national fellowship.  Congratulations, Trisha!
11/2011
Amanda Prior, first year chemistry grad student, officially joins the Venton lab.
11/2011
Ashley Ross, Ning Xiao, and Dr. Venton venture to Washington DC to present posters at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting.
11/2011
Dr. Venton gives a seminar to the chemistry department at Muhlenberg University.
10/2011
Trisha Vickrey's D2 autoreceptor paper is accepted to ACS Chemical Neuroscience.  Read it here.
10/2011
Several member of the Venton lab head over to Richmond for the regional ACS meeting, SERMACS, presenting both posters and talks. 
9/2011
Dr. Venton attends the Potter's Lodge Electrochemistry Meeting.
8/2011
Dr. Venton is seeking to hire a postdoc to work on CE-LIF projects.  A complete job announcement can be found by clicking this link.
8/2011
Dr. Venton attends S4: the Symposium on Small Scale Separations in Saratoga Springs, NY. 
8/2011
A paper by Jennifer Peairs and Ashley Ross comparing Nafion and overoxidized polypyrrole for depositing carbon nanotubes onto electrodes is accepted to Analytical Methods.  Congratulations!
5/2011
Dr. Venton is featured in a Nature Careers profile article.  Read the article here. 
5/2011
Dr. Venton is officially approved for tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor (effective Aug. 2011)!
4/2011
Megan Pajski successfully defends her PhD thesis, becoming the 1st chemistry PhD from the Venton lab and the 2nd PhD overall.  The lab celebrates with a party at Jill's house. 
4/2011
Dr Venton is working on a set of lessons for explaining the importance of analytical chemistry to society.  A link to that web page can be found here.
4/2011
Trisha Vickrey is awarded an ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry summer fellowship.  This prestigious national fellowship, sponsored by Eastman Kodak, was awarded to only 7 students.  Trisha also was also awarded a University of Virginia GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) dissertation year fellowship.  Congratulations on both awards Trisha!
3/2011
A large contigent of Venton lab folks traveled to Pittcon in Atlanta.  Megan, Chris J., Trisha, and Huaifang presented talks and Ning and Ashley had posters.  Jill Venton received her 2011 SEAC Young Investigator award. 
2/2011
Chris Jacob's paper on carbon nanotube modified electrodes is accepted by the Analyst.  Congratulations!
1/2011
Huaifang Fang's paper on capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection is accepted by Analytical Chemistry.  Congratulations!
1/2011
Trisha Vickrey is awarded a SEAC travel award to Pittcon. Congratulations!
12/2010
Three new students join the Venton lab: Madelaine Denno, Michael Nguyen, and Phuong Vo.  Welcome!
11/2010
Madame Curious visits the Venton lab.  She's a bear designed to teach fifth graders about science.  Read about her adventures with Trisha Vickrey at this blog.
10/2010
Jill Venton attends the FACSS meeting in Raleigh and the Dreyfus Foundation meeting of Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars. 
10/2010
Megan Pajski's paper on adenosine release in slices was accepted to ACS Chemical Neuroscience.    Congratulations!
9/2010
Our paper on A1 receptor modulation of adenosine releae was accepted to Neuroscience.  This paper was first authored by Sylvia Cechova.  Congratulations!
6/2010
Yida Xu's study on adenosine deaminase kinetics using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry is accepted to the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Check out the cover photo, drawn by Jenn:
5/2010
The Venton lab holds a picnic to honor graduating undergraduate researcher Asim Shabbir and celebrate the end of the semester.  A frinedly, but competitive game of bocce ball was played.
5/2010
Thitaphat "Non" Ngernsutivorakul wins Bass scholarship to do undergraduate research this summer.  Congratulations!
4/2010
Dr. Venton is awarded the 2011 Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Young Investigator Award.  The award will be presented at Pittcon in Atlanta in March, 2011.
4/2010
Dr. Venton is named a 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Dreyfus foundation.
3/2010
Several graduate students excel at the Huskey Graduate Research symposium.  Jenn Peairs wins second place in the posters for Physical Sciences while Trisha Vickrey wins third place in the oral presentations for Physical Sciences.  Collaborator Kasia Glanowska win second place for a poster in Biological Sciences and also later takes first prize at the Graduate Biosciences Symposium poster session. Congratulations! 
3/2010
Trisha Vickrey, Chris Jacobs, Jennifer Peairs and Jill Venton travel to Orlando for Pittcon.  Trisha, Chris, and Jill give talks while Jenn gives a poster.
2/2010
Trisha Vickrey is selected by the university to present her research at the Virginia Council of Graduate Schools Forum for the state legislature in Richmond.
1/2010
Dr. Venton presents an invited talk at the Gordon Conference on Electrochemistry in Ventura, CA. 
1/2010
The Venton group started the new year with 3 papers accepted for publication: Xenia Borue's study on mechanisms that control serotonin release in Journal of Neurochemistry, Yida Xu's study on the electrochemistry of adenosine and ATP in Electroanalysis, and Chris Jacobs and Jennifer Peairs' review on carbon nanotube modified electrodes in Analytica Chimica Acta.
12/2009
Four new graduate students join the lab: Taylor Phelps, Ashley Ross, Kellie Silcio, and Ning Wang.  Welcome!
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.
08/2008
Jill Venton and Xenia Borue attend the Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience Conference in Vancouver, Canada.  Congratulations to Xenia who wins one of the best poster awards!  Dr. Venton gives an invited talk on our efforts to fabricate more sensitive microelectrodes. 
08/2008
A review article written by Megan Huffman on in vivo applications of carbon-fiber microelectrodes is accepted to the Analyst. 
06/2008
A review article on neurochemistry written by graduate students Chris Jacobs and Trisha Vickrey is accepted for publication in the Wiley "Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology."
06/2008
Jill Venton and Sylvia Cechova travel to Copenhagen Denmark to attend the Purines 2008 meeting.  Dr. Venton gives an invited talk on our electrochemical sensors for adenosine measurements and Sylvia gives a poster on adenosine-dopamine interactions. 
05/2008
The Venton lab has an end of the year picnic and bocce ball game to celebrate our graduating members.  Congratulations to Stephanie Cooper, who will be attending University of Virginia Medical School next year and Neil Hershey who is off to chemistry graduate school at the University of Michigan. 
04/2008
Jill Venton travels to Indianapolis to visit Eli Lilly and accept the Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator Award.  Megan Huffman goes along and tours Eli Lilly as well.
03/2008
Our flame etched electrode paper is accepted to Analytical Chemistry.  This paper was former undergraduate research Andrew Strand's Distinguished Major Project last year.
03/2008
Megan Huffman and Dr. Venton attend Pittcon in New Orleans.  Megan gives a contributed talk and Dr. Venton gives an invited talk.
01/2008
The Venton lab publishes a paper on in vivo dynamics of adenosine release in Journal of Neurochemistry.  Sylvia Cechova is the first author.
01/2008
Dr. Venton is named an ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Foundation lecturer. 
11/2007
Dr. Venton, Sylvia Cechova, and Stephanie Cooper attend the Society for Neuroscience convention in San Diego, CA and present posters on their work.   
10/2007
Dr. Venton gives invited talks at FACSS in Memphis, TN and at SERMACS  in Greenville, SC. 
10/2007
Dr. Venton is awarded the Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator award. 
08/2007
Our first NIH grant is funded by NIBIB.  This R21 award is to develop an electrochemical adenosine sensor.
07/2007
The Venton lab's second paper is published in the Analyst.  This paper is then featured in the magazine Chemical Technology.
06/2007
The Venton lab is awarded a Beginning grant-in-aid from the American Heart Association to study adenosine release during ischemia. 
04/2007
Andrew Strand completes the Distinguished Majors Program in Chemistry and Vivek Ayer wins Best Presentation at the AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter Poster Session.
02/2007
Dr. Venton gives an invited lecture in the Investigating Neuronal Chemistry Symposia at Pittcon.
01/2007
The Venton lab's first paper is published in the Jan. 15th edition of Analytical Chemistry.
12/2006
Dr. Venton receives an NSF CAREER award for young faculty. Read the abstract.