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Karla presenting at #Dros23
Join Karla at the 2023 Annual Drosophila Research Conference March 1-5, 2023 in Chicago. It's so exciting to be part of such a brilliant...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


SfN 2022
Karla, Tariq, Nelson and Kristin all attended the annual 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego November 12-16. This year...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


Lab Hiking Fall 2022
The lab took a Tuesday afternoon off to go hiking at Beavertail State Park. We found lots of little critters and enjoyed the tranquility...

Kaun Lab
Nov 19, 20221 min read


John wins Poster Award at the Alcohol GRC!
Congrats to postdoctoral fellow Dr. John Hernandez who won a poster award at the 2022 Alcohol and the Nervous System: Neurobiology of...

Kaun Lab
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Lab Retreat 2022
Lab Retreat at Colt State Park 2022

Kaun Lab
Sep 25, 20221 min read


Undergrads present at Summer Symposium
Congrats to Rohan and Miauaxochitl for presenting their poster "Drosophila as a model system to study opioid use disorder" and to Owen...

Kaun Lab
Aug 10, 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...

Kaun Lab
Jul 12, 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...

Kaun Lab
Jun 28, 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...

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...

Kaun Lab
Jun 22, 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...

Kaun Lab
Jun 10, 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...

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...

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...

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
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