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.

We have several other multiplexing projects just out or coming out. For a long time we've viewed the brain one neurotransmitter at a time, but using multiple techniques is allowing us to look at multiple neurotransmitters in real time simultaneously!.

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.

RT @evamariawara: We still have one postdoctoral position available at the University of Virginia, starting in November, to work on synthet….

Best part of graduation : celebrating students and meeting families. Congratulations Venton lab graduates Kailash, Oliver, Haddesah and Meghan! @ChemistryUVA

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.

Congrats to Dr. Kailash Shrestha and Dr. He Oliver Zhao. Both completed their PhD dissertation defenses this week! Two new Venton lab grads!.

New Venton lab publication. In collaboration with the Ankeeva group at MIT-we tested multifunctional fibers, including for FSCV and fiber photometry.

Hoos in STEM? I am! Had a great time joining Ken Ono on the Hoos in STEM podcast to talk all things UVA Chemistry.

RT @presjimryan: Two great reads about three great teachers—a mother and son who both teach organic chemistry at UVA and the award-winning….

We were doing lab clean-up today and I google how to dispose of glycerol and one of the first things the google AI lists is feed to cattle. Seemed a bit impractical. Google AI might have a little bit of way to go in lab safety.

Northern lights right now over Charlottesville

Someone already said in their early talk today what we don’t need is more sensors for dopamine and of course that’s the topic of my talk tomorrow. But hopefully my 3D printed devices are flexible for many applications as well.

Excited to be in Ulm to hear a lot of electrochemistry and meet a lot of European electrochemists at ESEAC.

As department chair, you are often overwhelmed with fixing problems, so I always appreciate it when colleagues share good news of grants or awards or other accomplishments. Love to celebrate other's success!.

RT @angew_chem: 3D-Printed Carbon Nanoneedle Electrodes for Dopamine Detection in Drosophila (B. Jill Venton and co-workers) @jventon #open….

Particularly enjoyed talks on flexible carbon probes for FSCV by Hui Fang of Dartmouth and Jinxing Li of Michigan State. FSCV is not dead yet and new electrode designs are alive and well.

Had a great time the last two days at Bioinnovations Symposium in beautiful New Hampshire. Great sessions on biosensors and enjoyed meeting a variety of scientists including a lot of excellent young investigators

Honored to act as the official opponent for Samuel Rantataro at Aalto University in Finland today! My first time doing a formal defense like this (Samuel and Tomi Laurila his advisor are in tails!) and enjoying Finland.