Division of Biology and Medicine
Center on the Biology of Aging

Karla Kaun, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Karla_Kaun@brown.edu
Research Profile
Kaun Lab
Research Interests Synaptic networks of reward and addiction, JAK-STAT signaling, cognitive decline, effects of aging on substance abuse.

Biography

Research Interests: Synaptic networks of reward and addiction, JAK-STAT signaling, cognitive decline, effects of aging on substance abuse.

I use the fruit fly to investigate the neural substrates of drug reward at the molecular and cellular level. I investigate the neural circuitry and associated molecular mechanisms within the fly brain that regulate this memory, and how these processes change with aging.