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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
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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
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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
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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 13, 20231 min read
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lab Retreat 2022
Lab Retreat at Colt State Park 2022
Kaun Lab
Sep 25, 20221 min read
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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 11, 20221 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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