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Fly Meeting 2017!
Check out Nick Mei and Kavin Nunez's posters presented at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference in San Diego, California March...

Kaun Lab
Apr 10, 20171 min read


Congrats Sophia!
Congratulations to Sophia Song for being an awarded a Program in Liberal Medical Education Student Research Assistantship to continue her...

Kaun Lab
Mar 31, 20171 min read


Congrats Yanabah!
Congratulations to Yanabah Jacques for receiving an undergraduate research award to continue research on her project in the lab this summer@

Kaun Lab
Mar 31, 20171 min read


Congrats on your UTRA and SRA Sophia!
Congratulations to PLME student Sophia Song, who was awarded an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award to carry out her project in the...

Kaun Lab
Feb 20, 20171 min read


Welcome Karen!
Welcome to Karen Gutierrez who is doing an independent study project this term!

Kaun Lab
Feb 20, 20171 min read


Welcome Kelsey!
Welcome to MCB graduate student Kelsey Schuch, who is doing a rotation in the lab this term!

Kaun Lab
Feb 20, 20171 min read


Welcome Yanabah!
Welcome to Yanabah Jacques who is doing an independent study project this term!

Kaun Lab
Feb 20, 20171 min read


Dopaminergic rules of engagement
Check out our new review: Kaun & Rothenfluh (2017) Dopaminergic rules of engagement for memory in Drosophila in Current Opinion of...

Kaun Lab
Jan 13, 20171 min read
Postdoc position
We're looking for an enthusiastic post-doc interested in understanding circuit function underlying the aversive and appetitive memories...

Kaun Lab
Dec 23, 20161 min read


Welcome Matt!
Matthew Boehm is a Brown-NIH Neuroscience Graduate Partnership Program student interested in using optogenetic and thermogenetic methods...

Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Welcome Sinda!
Sinda Fekir is a Neuroscience Graduate Program student interested in understanding how alcohol affects glial-neuron interactions. Sinda...

Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Welcome Tyler!
Tyler Blackwater is one of our resident computer science experts. Tyler will be using computer vision (ctrax) and machine learning...

Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Welcome Gina!
Gina Chieffallo will be working on her Neuroscience honors thesis in the 2016-17 school year. She's interested in tracing circuits in the...

Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Welcome Nishell!
Welcome to Nishell Savory, one of Brown's first postbaccalaureate PREP students! Nishell joins us from Morgan State University and is...

Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read


Kaun Lab First Annual Summer Retreat
The first annual Kaun Lab Summer Retreat got rained out this year so the picnic was moved indoors. But, we still had lots of fun giving...

Kaun Lab
Aug 5, 20161 min read


Tracking lab @CSHLflycourse a success!
Nick Mei, Emily Petruccelli and Reza Azanchi worked tirelessly to create a fantastic alcohol and optogentics tracking lab for students in...

Kaun Lab
Jul 19, 20161 min read


Mike Feyder @GSA #TAGC
Mike Feyder soaking up lots of great feedback and ideas from colleagues at his poster "Scabrous mediates acute ethanol response in the...

Kaun Lab
Jul 16, 20161 min read


New summer undergrads!
Welcome Jaclyn Dell, Jack Martin, Tyler Blackwater and Gina Chieffallo (pic left to right). We are delighted to have you as part of the...

Kaun Lab
Jul 4, 20161 min read


Reward from bugs to bipeds review!
Congrats to Kristin Scaplen! Her review "Reward from bugs to bipeds: a comparative approach to understanding how reward circuits...

Kaun Lab
Jun 22, 20161 min read


Congrats Nicolas, Rachel and Sophie!
Congratulations to Nicolas Ledru (James Kidwell Prize in Genetics and Population Biology Award winner), Rachel Muster and Sophie Yan for...

Kaun Lab
May 29, 20161 min read
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