A warm welcome to Sebastian Martinez Rivera and Legna Rivera, undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico who are conducting...

Congratulations to rising senior Megan Wang, who won a poster award at the Boston Area Drosophila meeting on June 6, 2025. There were a...

Karla, Lewis, Nandashree, Megan and Nicholas all attended the 2025 Boston Area Drosophila Meeting held at UMass Boston, along with...

Dr. Tariq Brown officially received his PhD and was hooded on Sunday, May 25 at the Brown Commencement ceremony. The Kaun Lab got...

Kaun Lab members Karla Kaun, Reza Azanchi, John Hernandez and Lewis Sherer joined Kaun lab alumni and collaborators Emily Petruccelli and...

Spring always brings with it the feeling of a new and fresh start. The Lab celebrated Spring this year with a spring cleaning of our bad...

We wish a warm welcome to Ari Bouchie, our newest research assistant! Ari completed her BSc in Biology at Roger Williams University where...

We are lucky to have PhD Candidate Nadine Nowag working with us from February through May, 2025. Nadine joins us from the Universitat...

The Kaun Lab at the 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

Members of the Kaun Lab including MSc student Sam Stea and postdoctoral associate Dr. Nandashree Kasturacharya participated in the 2025...

Congratulations to Dr. Tariq Brown who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Alcohol-Induced Plasticity within Dopaminergic...

Neuroscience graduate student Tariq Brown and Dr. Karla Kaun were highlighted in News from Brown today! Alcohol, a laser light show,...

A Case for Science Advocacy

Science brings hope

We enjoyed many different types of sweets and cookies this year during our Annual Cookie/Sweet Swap while we discussed our Book Club book...

Welcome to the lab new Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Nandashree Kasturacharya! Nandashree recently completed her Ph.D. working with Dr....

Microscopy completed by graduate student Tariq Brown was highlighted in Brown News today in the article " How a shared super-resolution...

Dr. Rebecca Oramas was recently highlighted in the "From the Desk of the Dean: News and information from Mukesh K. Jain, MD Senior Vice...

In a recent article about Innovation Awards offered by the Carney Institute for Brain Science entitled " Return on a decade of innovation...

Members of the Kaun Lab attended and had a wonderful time at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago, October 5-9, 2024 ....