Kaun Lab
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, 2022
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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, 2022
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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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
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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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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Kaun Lab
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
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 -...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
Preparing Scientific Papers
At a recent Carney Methods Meet-up (https://www.brown.edu/carney/news-events/carney-methods-meetups), hosted by the Scientific Director...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
Reaching Your Writing Goals
Writing always takes me longer that I think it will. It doesn't matter what I'm writing: manuscripts, grants, emails, paper reviews,...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 24, 2021
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Helpful Blogs And Books
My favorite book is "Writing Science in Plain English" by Anne E. Greene. I keep it close at hand when I'm editing because it explains...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 24, 2021
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How To Start Writing a Manuscript
In which order should you start writing? In all honesty, if you're motivated to write a particular section, start there and go go go....
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Staying On Task When Writing
One of the hardest things about writing is getting the motivation to start, and then staying motivated and focused through the process....
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 24, 2021
- 1 min
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is essentially sketching out scenes from a story and putting them in the right order when developing a video, animation or...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Bias In Citations
Science is performed by people and all people have biases. Scientific papers by women and people of color are undercited compared to...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
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Writing Exercises
Here are some writing exercises that you can do to practice some of your style and grammar skills. Many of them are directly from...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Making Figures
I like clean looking figures that show all the raw data, are big enough that you can read without zooming in a million times, are aligned...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Style and Grammar Tips
The main rule in science writing is to ensure your prose is clear and concise so your audience understands the points you are trying to...
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