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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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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...

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....

Kaun Lab
Jun 1, 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...

Kaun Lab
May 4, 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...

Kaun Lab
May 1, 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....

Kaun Lab
Apr 21, 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...

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...

Kaun Lab
Apr 18, 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...

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...

Kaun Lab
Feb 13, 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...

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...

Kaun Lab
Jan 30, 20221 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...

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...

Kaun Lab
Nov 7, 20211 min read


Tariq presents at Virtual SfN!
Check out NSGP Graduate Student Tariq Brown's Poster at the 2021 Virtual Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting! P307.05 -...

Kaun Lab
Nov 7, 20211 min read


Apple Picking Fall 2021!
The Kaun Lab enjoys a morning picking apples at Barden Family Orchard in November 2021! The best place to get great pictures of flies on...

Kaun Lab
Oct 21, 20211 min read


2021 Summer Lab Retreat
The lab spent their annual retreat at Colt State Park. Everyone gave enlightening chalk talks about their projects and we celebrated...

Kaun Lab
Aug 6, 20211 min read


Congrats on your Graduate Award in Brain Science Tariq!
Congratulations to Neuroscience Graduate Student Tariq Brown for being selected to receive a Carney Institute Graduate Award in Brain...

Kaun Lab
Aug 2, 20211 min read


Lab Kayaking 2021
July 2021 the Kaun Lab and their families enjoyed a day kayaking at Lincoln Woods, RI. It was so much fun we're thinking about making...

Kaun Lab
Jul 30, 20211 min read


Congratulations on your F32 fellowship John!
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. John Hernandez for being awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for...

Kaun Lab
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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