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Welcome Sinda!
Sinda Fekir is a Neuroscience Graduate Program student interested in understanding how alcohol affects glial-neuron interactions. Sinda...
Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read
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Welcome Tyler!
Tyler Blackwater is one of our resident computer science experts. Tyler will be using computer vision (ctrax) and machine learning...
Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read
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Welcome Gina!
Gina Chieffallo will be working on her Neuroscience honors thesis in the 2016-17 school year. She's interested in tracing circuits in the...
Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read
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Welcome Nishell!
Welcome to Nishell Savory, one of Brown's first postbaccalaureate PREP students! Nishell joins us from Morgan State University and is...
Kaun Lab
Sep 21, 20161 min read
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Why isn't my behavior experiment working?
Step 1: Adjust your thinking Flies are animals and animals are complex organisms. One might think that doing behavior on a fly might be...
Kaun Lab
Aug 23, 20162 min read
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Kaun Lab First Annual Summer Retreat
The first annual Kaun Lab Summer Retreat got rained out this year so the picnic was moved indoors. But, we still had lots of fun giving...
Kaun Lab
Aug 5, 20161 min read
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Tracking lab @CSHLflycourse a success!
Nick Mei, Emily Petruccelli and Reza Azanchi worked tirelessly to create a fantastic alcohol and optogentics tracking lab for students in...
Kaun Lab
Jul 19, 20161 min read
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Mike Feyder @GSA #TAGC
Mike Feyder soaking up lots of great feedback and ideas from colleagues at his poster "Scabrous mediates acute ethanol response in the...
Kaun Lab
Jul 16, 20161 min read
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New summer undergrads!
Welcome Jaclyn Dell, Jack Martin, Tyler Blackwater and Gina Chieffallo (pic left to right). We are delighted to have you as part of the...
Kaun Lab
Jul 4, 20161 min read
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Reward from bugs to bipeds review!
Congrats to Kristin Scaplen! Her review "Reward from bugs to bipeds: a comparative approach to understanding how reward circuits...
Kaun Lab
Jun 22, 20161 min read
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Congrats Nicolas, Rachel and Sophie!
Congratulations to Nicolas Ledru (James Kidwell Prize in Genetics and Population Biology Award winner), Rachel Muster and Sophie Yan for...
Kaun Lab
May 29, 20161 min read
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Congrats Kavin!
Congratulations to Kavin Nunez for being selected as the 2016 Helen Fitzgerald Cserr Memorial Fund Pre-doctoral Fellow!
Kaun Lab
May 27, 20161 min read
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Duckpin Bowling
Those little pins are much harder to knock over than they seem. Congrats to Rachel, Sophie and Nicolas who are graduating this Sunday!
Kaun Lab
May 26, 20161 min read
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The new lab toys are here!
We're so excited that the new 2P scopes are installed and ready to go! Thanks to Scientifica for spending the week with us and getting us...
Kaun Lab
May 9, 20161 min read
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Congrats Nicolas!
A big congratulations to Nicolas Ledru who is the 2016 recipient of the James Kidwell Prize in Genetics and Population Biology. Nicolas...
Kaun Lab
Apr 21, 20161 min read
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Congrats Sam!
Congratulations to Samantha Huynh on receiving a Brown summer undergraduate teaching and research award (UTRA). This summer Sam will be...
Kaun Lab
Apr 7, 20161 min read
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Pi Day!!!
3.14 - such an awesome number because it's an excuse to have pie!
Kaun Lab
Mar 14, 20161 min read
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Congrats Rachel!
Congratulations to Rachel Muster who was recently awarded a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award at the NIH. After...
Kaun Lab
Feb 19, 20161 min read
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Kaun Lab First Ever Bonspiel
OK, it was more of a "Learn to Curl" than a Bonspeil but, you have to learn somewhere, right? Only two and a half people hit the ice....
Kaun Lab
Feb 3, 20161 min read
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Welcome Alastair!
A warm welcome to Alastair Tulloch, a first year student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, who will be rotating in the lab until May,...
Kaun Lab
Jan 30, 20161 min read
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