The KAUN Lab:
Behavioral Neurogenetics of Addiction 

Congrats to Kavin Nunez and Lewis Sherer, who are co-first authors on 'Hunger Recruits a Parallel Circuit Encoding Alcohol Reward' which was just published in Current Biology. Kavin, Lewis and their fellow co-authors from the Kaun Lab Anthony Walley, Sarah Salamon, and Vivian Chan revealed that a single neuron called VUMa3 gets activated during hunger, and taps into a circuit whos activity is required for remembering the rewarding properties of alcohol. This speeds up how so