| Karla Kaun | |
| Birth Date: | 1979 |
| Fields: | Behavioral Neurogenetics |
| Workplaces: | Brown University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Toronto |
| Thesis Title: | Neurogenetic and plastic components of food-related behaviors due to the foraging gene in Drosophila melanogaster |
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| Thesis Year: | 2007 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Marla Sokolowski |
| Academic Advisors: | Ulrike Heberlein |
| Awards: | IBANGS Early Career Achievement (2018) |
Karla Renea Kaun (1979)[1] is a Canadian behavioral neurogeneticist and the Robert and Nancy Carney Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University.[2] [3] She studies addiction using fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), as a model.[4] Kaun is currently president of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS).[5]
Kaun obtained her PhD in 2007 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Marla Sokolowski.[6] She followed up with postdoctoral training with Ulrike Heberlein (2007-2011: University of California, San Francisco; 2011-2013: Janelia Research Campus).[6] In 2013 she was recruited as an assistant professor at Brown University; she was promoted to associate professor in 2020., Kaun has published over 40 articles that have been cited over 2300 times, giving her an h-index of 21.[7] In 2018 she was an International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society Early Career Achievement awardee.[8]