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. 
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 Neurocience 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.