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Mushroom Body Meeting 2023
Karla and Tariq presented at the 2023 Mushroom Body Meeting in Gottingen, Germany. The city of Gottingen's primary feature is the...

Kaun Lab
Jun 2, 20231 min read


IBANGS 2023!
The annual International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society, Genes Brains and Behavior Meeting was in beautiful Galway, Ireland this...

Kaun Lab
Jun 2, 20231 min read


Congrats grads!
Congratulations to graduating seniors Rohan Freedman and Owen Wogmon. Both graduates performed excellent work during their time in the...

Kaun Lab
Jun 2, 20231 min read


Farewell to Nelson
Farewell to Postbaccalaureate Student Nelson Le who did a fantastic job presenting his project during the PREP Final Presentations....

Kaun Lab
May 19, 20231 min read


Owen Presents his Honor's Thesis Work
Owen Wogmon presented his Undergraduate Honor's Thesis entitled "Dop1R1, Dop1R2 and Dop2R expression in a simple Drosophila circuit...

Kaun Lab
May 3, 20231 min read


Karla receives Salomon Award!
Dr. Karla Kaun recently received a Brown University Salomon Faculty Research Award to learn about how new drug policies in Vancouver,...

Kaun Lab
Apr 24, 20231 min read


Mew Methods Papers Published!
Congratulations to Kavin Nunez, Jamie Catalano and Kristin Scaplen for publication of two new papers that will be in the new edition of...

Kaun Lab
Apr 10, 20231 min read


Kaun Lab at Brown Brain Fair!
Imaad Said, Nelson Le and John Hernandez show inquiring minds how optogenetics works and how we use this method to understand circuit...

Kaun Lab
Mar 19, 20231 min read


Collaborative Co-transmission Project Funded!
We just received the Notice of Award for a new NIGMS project titled ' Functional role of dual transmission on aggression ' focused on...

Kaun Lab
Mar 8, 20231 min read


Summer Undergrad Positions
Attention Brown undergraduate students interested in full-time summer research! There are two UTRA positions open in the lab this...

Kaun Lab
Jan 12, 20231 min read


2023 New Year's Resolutions
Every year the lab meets in January to discuss our New Year's Resolutions. That is, our research and career goals and ambitions for the...

Kaun Lab
Jan 12, 20231 min read


Holiday Cookie Swap
The lab had their annual cookie swap again. Nobody could be declared the winner this year due to too many tasty cookies. We were so...

Kaun Lab
Dec 16, 20221 min read


Karla presenting at #Dros23
Join Karla at the 2023 Annual Drosophila Research Conference March 1-5, 2023 in Chicago. It's so exciting to be part of such a brilliant...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


SfN 2022
Karla, Tariq, Nelson and Kristin all attended the annual 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego November 12-16. This year...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


Lab Hiking Fall 2022
The lab took a Tuesday afternoon off to go hiking at Beavertail State Park. We found lots of little critters and enjoyed the tranquility...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


John wins Poster Award at the Alcohol GRC!
Congrats to postdoctoral fellow Dr. John Hernandez who won a poster award at the 2022 Alcohol and the Nervous System: Neurobiology of...

Kaun Lab
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Lab Retreat 2022
Lab Retreat at Colt State Park 2022

Kaun Lab
Sep 25, 20221 min read


Undergrads present at Summer Symposium
Congrats to Rohan and Miauaxochitl for presenting their poster "Drosophila as a model system to study opioid use disorder" and to Owen...

Kaun Lab
Aug 10, 20221 min read


Commentary on alcohol and mitochondrial trafficking
Check out a new commentary by Dr. John Hernandez and Dr. Karla Kaun on the interaction between alcohol, neuronal plasticity and...

Kaun Lab
Jul 12, 20221 min read


John presents at RSA!
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. John Hernandez ran into some amazing alcohol researchers when presenting his poster at the Research Society on...

Kaun Lab
Jun 28, 20221 min read
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