Jill Venton

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

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.
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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!
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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.

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...

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
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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...

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
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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 ...

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.
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Yes. Most graduate and undergraduate students we train in research go to industry. This will cripple all of US science and make us less competitive. Industry can't/doesn't do this work themselves, and relies on a trained workforce from research universities.

It's been sad watching R1 universities devalue humanities, and hire fewer tenure-track faculty. The sciences have been spared largely because our grants justify our TT existence. If research now costs the university money, much less will be done. Why not just hire teaching faculty, its cheaper?

When researchers say that a low indirect rate will cripple research, this is what we mean. High costs will be placed on direct research. Other demands by the university will go up. The number of graduate students and postdocs we can train will go down. Fewer people will want to be professors.

Also, our ability to bring in grants with overhead effectively buys us out of some teaching. My teaching load is 1 course per semester. If our grants can't cover research costs, the university will raise teaching loads to pay our salaries. Much less time for research

A lot of these benefits could perhaps be rolled into direct costs. We would need to charge 4 times the rate for NMR for example to make full costs. We could charge every time the instrument tech helps. But that will inevitably kick up direct costs and cost us personnel or buying power for supplies

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!

Welcome the UVA Chemistry Amrit! Glad to have you as a colleague.

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...

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

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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.

Inside the UVA Dept. with 10,000 Students: Chemistry, under Dr. Jill Venton Podcast Episode · Hoos in STEM · 11/15/2024 · 34m

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