Honored to have received the Thomas Jefferson Award in Scholarship at the BOV meeting last Friday. This is UVA's top faculty honor, which celebrates research as well as teaching and service excellence. You can read more here. as.virginia.edu/news/uvas-to...

The Venton lab is hiring a lab manager at the Senior Scientist level. Specifically looking for genetics and neuroscience expertise, as well as skills in management, writing, and student mentoring. Full ad here. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Senior Scientist of Chemistry in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Senior Scientist of Chemistry job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

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Come teach at UVA! We have a teaching-track (called general faculty) position open in Biochemistry. Our teaching faculty receive 3 year contracts, have the opportunity for promotion after 6 years (and eventually to full professor) and are regarded as valuable colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/175929

University of Virginia Chemistry Department is hiring a faculty member with research interests of chemistry related to neuroscience. This could be bioanalytical, biophysical, biochemistry, bioinorganic, chemical biology, drug discovery, etc. Come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/172898

I'm not able to travel at the moment, but my group is! You can catch amazing Venton lab posters this week at both the ACS meeting in DC and the International Society for Neurochemistry meeting in NY. Another group is down at Oak Ridge National Lab at CNMS.

Another exciting new direction in the Venton lab is modulating neurotransmission with Focused ultrasound (FUS). Led by Greatness Olaitan, and in collaboration with Wendy Lynch, we can now use noninvasive FUS to modulate a dopaminergic circuit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Focused Ultrasound Modulates Dopamine in a Mesolimbic Reward Circuit

Background: Dopamine dysfunction in the mesolimbic pathway is implicated in psychiatric disorders. This study investigated the effects of low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) apon dopamine release...

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The Venton lab is getting into multiplexing. In this exciting new paper led by Kailash Shrestha and Yuanyu Chang, we multiplex FSCV detection of adenosine and dopamine with fluorescent iGluSnFR to understand adenosine neuromodulation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Multiplexing FSCV and iGluSnFR3 Sensors Reveals Adenosine Transiently Inhibits Stimulated Dopamine and Glutamate Release

This study highlights the innovative application of multiplexing fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) and genetically encoded fluorescence sensors to simultaneously monitor interactions among adenosin...

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Check out our latest manuscript in ACS Electrochemistry, detailing how to make electrodes from pyrolyzed parylene. First author He Oliver Zhao and noted ORNL collaborator Nick Lavrik are the brains behind this one. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Pyrolyzed Parylene-N for in Vivo Electrochemical Detection of Neurotransmitters

Carbon electrodes are typically used for in vivo dopamine detection, and new types of electrodes and customized fabrication methods will facilitate new applications. Parylene is an insulator that can ...

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As a department chair, I think about if NIH indirects are cut to 15% we will never see any funds. The university will take their money first (perhaps rightly so). Our department uses indirects to pay an instrument tech, run NMR and mass spec, run a graduate retreat etc. Real benefits for research.

We landed a senior recruit (to be announced publicly later) and I enjoyed the fact that former department chairs wrote to tell me thank you for all my work. Recruiting, negotiating with, and finally landing faculty candidates is a time consuming business for a department chair, but very worthwhile!

New Venton lab publication. In collaboration with the Ankeeva group at MIT-we tested multifunctional fibers, including for FSCV and fiber photometry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Multifunctional Neural Probes Enable Bidirectional Electrical, Optical, and Chemical Recording and Stimulation In Vivo

Convergence drawing is used to create flexible, microscale, multifunctional fiber-based neural probes. Optimized materials selection enables individual devices to perform neural recording, electrical...

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We're about to host 9 faculty candidates for 2 different searches in the next 3 weeks before break. And I have to finish a class and grade 30 papers.. Plus, I'm going to meet with every person in my lab individually. It's going to be an exciting ride if I make it through...

I don't know what profs needs to hear this, but Dec. 1 is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, meaning all those letters of recommendation for grad school need to get done before Thanksgiving break. I'm working with an admin this year to upload mine, so trying to get the letters to her this week.

Hoos in STEM? I am! Had a great time joining Ken Ono on the Hoos in STEM podcast talking all things UVA Chemistry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Inside the UVA Dept. with 10,000 Students: Chemistry, under Dr. Jill Venton

Podcast Episode · Hoos in STEM · 11/15/2024 · 34m

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Trying out this new platform. Hope to find some good chemistry (and neuroscience) content. Let me know what I should follow!