Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Scaplen who won an award at the 2020 Alcohol and the Nervous System Gordon Research Conference for best...

Karla is pleased to announce that she will be promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, with tenure, as of July 1, 2020.

A huge welcome to Dr. John Hernandez, who is joining the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Neuroscience. John recently...

We're super excited to welcome Tariq Brown to the lab as a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. An official...

Congratulations to Jamie Catalano and Katie McCullar who successfully passed their preliminary PhD exams this month. It's so exciting to...

Our lab retreat this year was at a gorgeous spot at Colt State Park. Everyone gave fantastic chalk talks on their research and the...

Presidential Scholar Anthony Walley, mentored by graduate student and Gilliam Fellow Kavin Nunez, presented his work looking at the role...

Anthony Walley is a Presidential Scholar at Brown University, majoring in Neuroscience. He is working on how internal state regulates...

Our newest lab member came into the world yesterday. Congratulations Amanda and Marco, and welcome to the lab little Paulo!

Graduate student Kavin Nunez presented his work at the 2019 Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Flexible Brain Functions and Behavior...

Computational Biology undergraduate student Tyler Blackwater is one of the featured Brown undergraduates in the Brown Alumni Magazine...

The John P. Donoghue Prize is awarded to a neuroscience graduate that has demonstrated excellence in the classroom and in the laboratory,...

Congratulations to Kaun Lab (former) undergraduates Sydney Gang (Biochemistry '19), Ryan Cohen (Neurobiology '19), Sophia Song...

Check out our new paper describing the flyGrAM: a cost efficient method to monitor fly activity. We developed an easy-to-use apparatus...

Do you enjoy coding and want to work in a scientifically and culturally diverse environment? We're looking for a research assistant to...

Happy Holidays Everyone! This has been such a great year for the lab. It's been amazing working alongside all of you. I'm not sure how...

Congrats to Emily, Mike, Nicolas, Ed and Yanabah whose study "Alcohol activates Scabrous-Notch to influence associated memories" was...

Want to learn more about how we can use flies to understand addiction? Join Karla for her lecture, 6pm at the RISD auditorium (7 Canal...

Read about how researchers at Brown (including the Kaun Lab) are using cutting edge research to understand how our brain functions in a...

Thanks to everyone in the Kaun Lab that helped make our retreat a success. Great chalk talks, and fun and productive discussion. Colt...