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...
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.
The Venton lab is looking for a postdoc, preferably one with fruit fly or genetics experience. Please contact Dr. Venton (jventon at virginia dot edu) for more information.