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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


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...

Kaun Lab
Oct 26, 20211 min read
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,...

Kaun Lab
Oct 26, 20211 min read
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...

Kaun Lab
Oct 24, 20211 min read
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....

Kaun Lab
Oct 23, 20211 min read
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....

Kaun Lab
Oct 23, 20212 min read
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is essentially sketching out scenes from a story and putting them in the right order when developing a video, animation or...

Kaun Lab
Oct 23, 20211 min read
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...

Kaun Lab
Oct 23, 20211 min read
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