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

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

Kaun Lab
Jun 71 min read
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Boston Area Drosophila Meeting
Karla, Lewis, Nandashree, Megan and Nicholas all attended the 2025 Boston Area Drosophila Meeting held at UMass Boston, along with...

Kaun Lab
Jun 71 min read
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Tariq Graduates!
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
May 291 min read
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The Kaun Lab at IBANGS
Kaun Lab members Karla Kaun, Reza Azanchi, John Hernandez and Lewis Sherer joined Kaun lab alumni and collaborators Emily Petruccelli and...

Kaun Lab
May 291 min read
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Lab Blunders and Cascarones!
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...

Kaun Lab
Apr 231 min read
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Welcome Ari!
We wish a warm welcome to Ari Bouchie, our newest research assistant! Ari completed her BSc in Biology at Roger Williams University where...

Kaun Lab
Mar 311 min read
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Welcome Nadine!
We are lucky to have PhD Candidate Nadine Nowag working with us from February through May, 2025. Nadine joins us from the Universitat...

Kaun Lab
Mar 311 min read
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Dr. Rebecca Oramas presents at Fly Meeting
The Kaun Lab at the 66th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

Kaun Lab
Mar 261 min read
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Optogenetics at the 2025 Brain Fair
Members of the Kaun Lab including MSc student Sam Stea and postdoctoral associate Dr. Nandashree Kasturacharya participated in the 2025...

Kaun Lab
Mar 191 min read
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Congratulations Tariq!
Congratulations to Dr. Tariq Brown who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Alcohol-Induced Plasticity within Dopaminergic...

Kaun Lab
Mar 191 min read
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Tariq highlighted in News from Brown
Neuroscience graduate student Tariq Brown and Dr. Karla Kaun were highlighted in News from Brown today! Alcohol, a laser light show,...

Kaun Lab
Jan 311 min read
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A Case for Science Advocacy
A Case for Science Advocacy

Kaun Lab
Jan 311 min read
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Communicating that science brings hope
Science brings hope

Kaun Lab
Jan 211 min read
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Lab Holiday Cookie Swap
We enjoyed many different types of sweets and cookies this year during our Annual Cookie/Sweet Swap while we discussed our Book Club book...

Kaun Lab
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Welcome Nandashree!
Welcome to the lab new Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Nandashree Kasturacharya! Nandashree recently completed her Ph.D. working with Dr....

Kaun Lab
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Microscopy Highlighted
Microscopy completed by graduate student Tariq Brown was highlighted in Brown News today in the article " How a shared super-resolution...

Kaun Lab
Dec 17, 20241 min read
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Rebecca highlighted by the Dean
Dr. Rebecca Oramas was recently highlighted in the "From the Desk of the Dean: News and information from Mukesh K. Jain, MD Senior Vice...

Kaun Lab
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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Kaun Lab Collaborations Featured
In a recent article about Innovation Awards offered by the Carney Institute for Brain Science entitled " Return on a decade of innovation...

Kaun Lab
Nov 3, 20241 min read
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The Kaun Lab @ SfN 2024
Members of the Kaun Lab attended and had a wonderful time at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago, October 5-9, 2024 ....

Kaun Lab
Oct 11, 20241 min read
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