Venton Lab at the University of Virginia

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.

Recent News
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 Jill Venton attend Pittcon. Megan gives a contributed talk on properties of different carbon fibers and Dr. Venton gives an invited talk on electrochemical detection of serotonin.
01/2008
Our paper on in vivo dynamics of adenosine release is accepted to Journal of Neurochemistry. Sylvia Cechova is the first author.
01/2008
Jill Venton is named an ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Foundation lecturer.
11/2007
Jill Venton, Sylvia Cechova, and Stephanie Cooper attend the Society for Neuroscience convention in San Diego, CA and present posters on their work.

Go to the News Archive to read all the past Venton lab news.
group pic

Front Row, Left to Right: Megan Huffman, Stephanie Cooper, Sylvia Cechova, Trisha Vickrey, Huai-Fang Fang

Back Row, Left to Right: Chris Green, Xenia Borue, Neil Hershey, Jay Park, Chris Jacobs, Angela Elsobky, Jill Venton (picture taken Feb. 2008)