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Summer 2023 Book Club: Never Enough by Judy Grisel
Every few months the lab holds a Book Club and this summer we read and discussed Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of...

Kaun Lab
Aug 7, 20231 min read


New Grant to Investigate Polysubstance Use
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded the Kaun, O'Connor-Giles and Larschan labs a collaborative 5 year R01 Grant to...

Kaun Lab
Aug 4, 20231 min read


2023 Summer Undergrad Symposium
Congrats to the undergraduate students on presenting their summer projects at Brown's Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!...

Kaun Lab
Aug 3, 20231 min read


Dr. Kristin Scaplen on WGBH All Things Considered
Listen to lab collaborator Dr. Kristin Scaplen from Bryant University being interviewed by Arun Rath on WGBH's All Things Considered in...

Kaun Lab
Jul 24, 20231 min read


IMPACT: Research@Brown article on Eve Glenn
Undergraduate Eve Glenn was recently highlighted in the 2023 Edition of IMPACT, the Research at Brown Magazine. Eve won the 2022 Richard...

Kaun Lab
Jul 13, 20231 min read


Research Society on Alcohol 2023 Meeting!
The Research Society on Alcohol was held in beautiful Bellevue, Washington June 24-28 this year. Karla presented the Kaun lab's work on...

Kaun Lab
Jul 3, 20231 min read


Lab Ice Cream Outing
Friday we took a short trip to Like No Udder, a local vegan ice cream shop, and enjoyed some tasty summer treats. New undergraduates...

Kaun Lab
Jun 20, 20231 min read


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
Organizing Your Abstract
Abstracts can be tricky to write because they are so succinct so every word matters. The most difficult part is figuring out the best way...

Kaun Lab
Feb 12, 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
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