We are sad to say that the Kaun Lab will be closed from March 13 until further notice in order to keep everyone safe via strict Social Distancing Measures. W...

Congratulations to second year Neuroscience Graduate Program student Tariq Brown who was awarded a free membership to the International Behavioural and Neura...

Congratulations to Kavin Nunez for being awarded a placement in the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! Learn more about this incr...

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Scaplen who won an award at the 2020 Alcohol and the Nervous System Gordon Research Conference for best post-doc poster!

Karla is pleased to announce that she will be promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, with tenure, as of July 1, 2020.

A huge welcome to Dr. John Hernandez, who is joining the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Neuroscience. John recently graduated from Univ...

We're super excited to welcome Tariq Brown to the lab as a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. An official 'Welcome to the tea...

Congratulations to Jamie Catalano and Katie McCullar who successfully passed their preliminary PhD exams this month. It's so exciting to have such spectacula...

Our lab retreat this year was at a gorgeous spot at Colt State Park. Everyone gave fantastic chalk talks on their research and the brainstorming was off the ...

Presidential Scholar Anthony Walley, mentored by graduate student and Gilliam Fellow Kavin Nunez, presented his work looking at the role of octopamine on acu...

Anthony Walley is a Presidential Scholar at Brown University, majoring in Neuroscience. He is working on how internal state regulates sensitive to ethanol th...

Our newest lab member came into the world yesterday. Congratulations Amanda and Marco, and welcome to the lab little Paulo!

Graduate student Kavin Nunez presented his work at the 2019 Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Flexible Brain Functions and Behavior Gordon Research Confe...

Computational Biology undergraduate student Tyler Blackwater is one of the featured Brown undergraduates in the Brown Alumni Magazine article "Who We Are: A ...

The John P. Donoghue Prize is awarded to a neuroscience graduate that has demonstrated excellence in the classroom and in the laboratory, and who shows outst...

Congratulations to Kaun Lab (former) undergraduates Sydney Gang (Biochemistry '19), Ryan Cohen (Neurobiology '19), Sophia Song (Neuroscience '19) and Tyler B...

There are a lot of tracking systems now available for fly behavior. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages. If you are new to fly behavior and tracking, ...

Check out our new paper describing the flyGrAM: a cost efficient method to monitor fly activity. We developed an easy-to-use apparatus and accompanying softw...

Happy Holidays Everyone! This has been such a great year for the lab. It's been amazing working alongside all of you. I'm not sure how we're going to beat Ic...