Jill Venton

@oljasimoska @SimoskaLab Congratulations Olja! Hope to see you you at Pittcon.

Honored to receive the 2026 Cottrell Scholar Award. As an electrochemist, this recognition feels especially meaningful given the award’s deep roots in our field. Grateful to my students, mentors, collaborators, and RCSA for the support!!! @SimoskaLab

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/R007…

@StacyMalaker @YaleChem Congratulations Stacy! Awesome job!

Five years ago, I shared a picture of CRB on my very first day at @YaleChem. Today, almost exactly 5 years later I'm walking into the same building with a new title (and a lot of construction)! I’m thrilled to share that I am officially an Associate Professor with tenure!! 🥂🎉

Congrats Dr Greatness Olaitan who successfully defended his PhD dissertation this week. His work developing focused ultrasound parameters to treat fentanyl addiction relapse has real translational potential in opioid abuse. Congrats Dr Olaitan!

Come teach @ChemistryUVA ! We have a teaching-track (general faculty) position open in Biochemistry. Our teaching faculty receive 3 year contracts, have the opportunity for promotion and are regarded as valuable colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/175929

@ChemistryUVA is hiring! We are looking for a faculty member research interests of chemistry related to neuroscience. This could be bioanalytical, biophysical, biochemistry, bioinorganic, chemical biology, drug discovery, etc. @UVA_PFN UVA Brain Institute apply.interfolio.com/172898

We are excited to announce an opening in any chemistry area for Fall 2026 at the rapidly growing U of Arkansas. Apply by 15 Nov. Happy to chat with anyone. @Chemjobber uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/jo…

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/10.11…

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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

We still have one postdoctoral position available at the University of Virginia, starting in November, to work on synthetic photochemistry. Submit your application via the link below. Application deadline: July 10th jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R007…

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. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

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

@kek_kelsie @IUBChemistry Congrats Kelsie on the new job. So well deserved!

I'm thrilled to share that I will be starting my independent career @IUBChemistry in July! The Wentz lab will interface synthetic chemistry with materials science, while providing strategies to access new generations of molecular building blocks and macromolecular materials.

@ZhuHuiyuan You're killing it this week with this honor and then the College Research award as well. Congratulations on both achievements!

Honored to be selected as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in both 2024 and 2025. Grateful and excited for the opportunity to be immersed in science for the next three days. nasonline.org/news/national-…

@evamariawara @ChemistryUVA Welcome to UVA Eva! So glad to have you as a colleague!

I am excited to share that I will be starting my independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia (UVA) this Fall! @ChemistryUVA Muy contenta de empezar un nuevo capitulo en mi carrera academica!

@RJGilliard @POTUS @gilliardgroup @NSF @ChemistryMIT @MIT @ScienceMIT Congratulations Robert!

Thank you to @POTUS and the Biden Administration for the surprise PECASE award announcement in his final days in office! Team @gilliardgroup is grateful for the recognition! @NSF @ChemistryMIT @MIT @ScienceMIT whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

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/10.100…