Jill, Kelly, and Leah were featured in UVA Today's "How Do SSRIs Like Prozac, Lexapro Really Work? Ask a Fruit Fly." Read the article here!

Dennis Rinehart joins the lab as a research specialist and Cheonho Park joins the lab as a postdoc.  Both will work on fruit fly projects. Welcome! 

Dr. Venton won the 2022 ACS Measurement Lectureship and gave a virtual symposium address.  Congratulations Jill!

Kani is a third-year undergraduate in Chemistry who will assist on fruit fly feeding projects. Welcome Kani!

The Venton lab has received a new NIH grant to continue our studies of nanomaterial and 3D printed electrodes.  This grant will work in collaboration with Nick Lavrik at Oak Ridge National Lab to...

The Venton lab is hiring.  Multiple postdoc positions available.  Especially valued is experience working with animals (rodents), Drosophila, or with fluorescent imaging.  It's job R0037904, with link...

Huge congratulations to Dr. Venton for winning the 2022 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award! This exciting award recognizes three individuals who have made a major impact in the field...

Kelly Dunham was awarded the Jefferson Scholars Foundation fellowship. This exciting new fellowship will fund her dissertation year and a postdoctoral year where she will teach an engagements course...

Congratulations to Yuanyu Chang and Scott Lee on their newly published paper, "Pannexin1 channels regulate mechanically-stimulated but not spontaneous adenosine release," in Analytical and...

Yuanyu successfully defended his dissertation, "Characterization of rapid adenosine neuromodulation in mouse brain slices."