Congrats to Max and Scott, whose mechanistic study on histamine oxidation is now out in Analytical Chemistry!

The Venton lab teamed up with the Grotewiel group at VCU to study serotonin in flies with different yeast diets.  Visiting scholar Huaifang Fang did the tissue content analysis in our lab and the...

Dr. Jill Venton has been named the next chair of the Chemistry Department at University of Virginia.  She takes over the role in August and will serve for 3 years.  

Dr. Eduard Dumitrescu joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar.  Dr. Dumitrescu graduated from Clarkson University with experience in biosensors, including measurements in zebrafish embryos.  In the...

Zaria Evans, a rising sophomore from Dillard University in New Orleans, joins the lab as a visiting FYRE student this summer.  Welcome Zaria!

Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Samuel Wachamo, who graduated this May.  Samuel succesfully completed a distinguished majors thesis, looking at methods to distinguish adenosine and ATP...

Dr. Venton traveled to Chile in April 2019 to give seminars at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.  She gave separate seminars in Chemistry and Biology and was hosted by Angelica Fierro and...

Congratulations to Max Puthongkham, who will receive the Sidney Hecht fellowship next year! This fellowship is for our best graduate student in chemical biology. 

Qun, Jason, Max, Malli, Mimi, and Dr. Venton went to Philadelphia to give talks at Pittcon 2019.

Our first paper on carbon nanopipette electrode from our collaboration with Michael Mirkin, CUNY, is published in Analytical Chemistry.