Dr. John Hernandez gave a great summary of his new behavioral paradigm to measure escalation of ethanol self-administration in Drosophila...

A multi-lab collaboration came to fruition this morning as Kristin Scaplen's manuscript "Transsynaptic mapping of mushroom body output...

Huge congratulations to MPP graduate student Kavin Nunez for receiving a NIH F99/K00 Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to...

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Scaplen who will be joining faculty in the Department of Psychology at Bryant University as an Assistant...

Check out our recent publication 'Circuits that encode and guide alcohol-associated preference' in eLife, led by postdoc Dr. Kristin...

We are sad to say that the Kaun Lab will be closed from March 13 until further notice in order to keep everyone safe via strict Social...

Congratulations to second year Neuroscience Graduate Program student Tariq Brown who was awarded a free membership to the International...

Congratulations to Kavin Nunez for being awarded a placement in the NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! Learn...

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Scaplen who won an award at the 2020 Alcohol and the Nervous System Gordon Research Conference for best...

Karla is pleased to announce that she will be promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, with tenure, as of July 1, 2020.

A huge welcome to Dr. John Hernandez, who is joining the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Neuroscience. John recently...

We're super excited to welcome Tariq Brown to the lab as a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. An official...

Congratulations to Jamie Catalano and Katie McCullar who successfully passed their preliminary PhD exams this month. It's so exciting to...

Our lab retreat this year was at a gorgeous spot at Colt State Park. Everyone gave fantastic chalk talks on their research and the...

Presidential Scholar Anthony Walley, mentored by graduate student and Gilliam Fellow Kavin Nunez, presented his work looking at the role...

Anthony Walley is a Presidential Scholar at Brown University, majoring in Neuroscience. He is working on how internal state regulates...

Our newest lab member came into the world yesterday. Congratulations Amanda and Marco, and welcome to the lab little Paulo!

Graduate student Kavin Nunez presented his work at the 2019 Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Flexible Brain Functions and Behavior...

Computational Biology undergraduate student Tyler Blackwater is one of the featured Brown undergraduates in the Brown Alumni Magazine...

The John P. Donoghue Prize is awarded to a neuroscience graduate that has demonstrated excellence in the classroom and in the laboratory,...