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Kaun Lab
Jul 12, 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...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 28, 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...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Welcome Summer Undergrads!
Welcome back to Owen Wogmon and Rohan Freeman and welcome to Miauaxochitl Haskie, Lauren Eusebio and Imaad Said who have just started...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Welcome Nelson!
Welcome to Nelson Le, who is a new student in the Brown University Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) for Biological...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 10, 20221 min read
New Collaborative Publication with Palmer Lab
Spencer Huggett from Rohan Palmer's lab at Emery University led an investigation of the association between alternative mRNA splicing an...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Rotation interest?
Are you a first year grad student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NSGP) or Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Tariq presents at IBANGS
Tariq Brown did a fantastic job presenting his work on the Dopamine-2 Receptor (Dop2R) at the International Behavior and Neural Genetics...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Congratulations Eve!
Congratulations to Eve Glenn on her Commencement with Honors! It was wonderful seeing you walk across the graduation stage: once to...
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Kaun Lab
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Congratulations Kavin!
Congratulations to Dr. Kavin Nunez who walked through Brown University's Van Wickle gates on Sunday, May 29 to complete his Commencement....
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Kaun Lab
May 4, 20221 min read
Eve wins the Whalen thesis award!
Congratulations to Eve Glenn who was awarded the 2022 Richard E. Whalen Award for Undergraduate Research: Excellence in Neuroscience and...
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Kaun Lab
May 1, 20221 min read
Tariq heads to CSHL in July
Congratulations to Tariq Brown who will be taking the Drosophila Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits, Behavior course this July at Cold Spring...
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Kaun Lab
Apr 21, 20221 min read
Karla was elected the new President of IBANGS!
Dr. Karla Kaun was recently elected as the new incoming President (2023-24) of the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society....
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Kaun Lab
Apr 18, 20221 min read
Congrats on your Travel Award John!
Congratulations to Dr. John Hernandez who was awarded a Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) Junior Investigator Meeting Award to attend...
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Kaun Lab
Apr 18, 20221 min read
John at Fly Meeting 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. John Hernandez presented his new data on the role of the alpha'3 mushroom body circuit in operant ethanol...
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Kaun Lab
Feb 14, 20221 min read
We are hiring!
There are three new job opportunities in the Kaun Lab! We are hiring a full-time research technician to aid in performing Behavioral...
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Kaun Lab
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Congratulations on your F31 NRSA Tariq!
Congratulations to Tariq Brown for being awarded a 3 year NIAAA F31 NRSA entitled "Alcohol-Induced Alternative Splicing in Drosophila...
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Kaun Lab
Jan 30, 20221 min read
New grant to investigate opioid abuse
The lab recently received a 2022 Seed grant from Brown University to develop Drosophila as a model to understand the neural and molecular...
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Kaun Lab
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Eve Glenn featured in Brown News!
Check out this article in the Brown News featuring Neuroscience Undergraduate Honors Student Eve Glenn! Eve is currently looking at how...
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Kaun Lab
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Congratulations Dr. Nunez!
A huge Congratulations! to our very own Dr. Kavin Nunez who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Mechanisms of cue-induced...
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Kaun Lab
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Eve Glenn is featured in a Carney Institute Spotlight!
The Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University recently published a Community Spotlight on our very...
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