Congratulations to Biology Honors Student Miauaxochitl Haskie who presented her Honors Thesis work entitled "Drosophila as a Model System...

Mapping neurons in the fruit fly brain

Dr. John Hernandez and Tariq Brown had a great time participating in Brain Waves RI 2024, the big annual Neuroscience outreach...

Invertebrate research at the 2024 Alcohol GRC.

Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effects

Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work

The entire lab is very excited to welcome the latest addition to Amanda and Marco's family! Elisa Anne Verzelles was born this past...

As Brown prepares for the cold New England winter, the Kaun Lab was baking cookies for our annual Sweet Swap. We all went home with a...

Dr. Kristin Scaplen spoke about her research in the Addiction Talk Podcast hosted by Joy Sutton on November 15, 2023. Addiction Talk is...

Neuroscience Graduate Program (NSGP) Student Tariq Brown and NSGP Rotation Student Hanna Hammedy attended the Annual Society for...

Congratulations to undergraduate student Miauaxochitl Haske who presented her Honor's thesis work on volatilized nicotine sensitivity in...

Celebratory lunch with members of the Kaun Lab

Dopamine determines how reward overrides risk

Congratulations to John Hernandez and Tariq Brown on their new open access Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Neuroscience entry on...

Our Annual Lab Retreat was held at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI again this year. We enjoyed listening to each other's chalk talks and...

Research Assistant Positions

Every few months the lab holds a Book Club and this summer we read and discussed Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded the Kaun, O'Connor-Giles and Larschan labs a collaborative 5 year R01 Grant to...

Congrats to the undergraduate students on presenting their summer projects at Brown's Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!...

Listen to lab collaborator Dr. Kristin Scaplen from Bryant University being interviewed by Arun Rath on WGBH's All Things Considered in...