Current Group Members

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Bella Guardado

Bella Guardado graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Her current research interests are developing novel carbon microelectrodes...

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Rhoda Asiamah

Graduate Student in Chemistry

Rhoda Asiamah graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology. She joined the Venton lab in 2024...

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Samantha Webster

Graduate Student in Chemistry

Sam Webster graduated from Truman State University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and minors in Forensic Science, Military Science, and Spanish. As an undergraduate, Sam researched...

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Ananya Saha

Graduate Student in Chemistry

Ananya Saha is an international student from Bangladesh. She completed her undergraduate studies from Department of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka. She has also completed her Master's studies from the...

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Priyansha Dubey

Postdoctoral Researcher

Priyansha obtained her doctorate from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, in May 2024. During her PhD, she mainly focused on the development and characterization of a novel rat model of dystonia...

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Emily Miller

Graduate Student in Chemistry

Emily Miller graduated from the University of New Haven in 2023 with a B.S. in Forensic Science - Chemistry and a minor in Biology. In the Venton lab, she is studying serotonin uptake in fruit fly...

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Faith Eyimegwu

Graduate Student in Chemistry

Faith Eyimegwu earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 2019. She completed a master's degree in 2023 at Illinois State University under Dr. Jun-Hyun Kim, focusing on...

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Dayana Surendran

Research Scientist

Dayana completed her Ph.D. in Biophysics at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India. Her doctoral research revolved around investigating the role of protein kinase C...

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Dennis Rinehart

Lab Technician

Dennis Rinehart completed a bachelor’s degree in biology at Liberty University before studying plant breeding as an agricultural intern at The Land Institute, Salina Kansas.  After returning to...

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Cheonho Park

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cheonho received his PhD from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2021. While he was at HYU, he worked on developing an electrochemical method that could be used in clinical applications. His...

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He (Oliver) Zhao

Graduate Student in Chemistry

He Zhao graduated from American University in 2019 with a BS in Biochemistry. His research focused on synthesizing different shapes of AuNPs and their applications on improving the signals of CFMEs...

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