Aggression is an evolutionarily conserved behavior essential for survival and reproduction, yet escalation to high-intensity forms entails substantial metabolic costs and injury risks, necessitating p...

Summary: A new assay that characterizes subtle behaviors and assesses operant learning in freely behaving Drosophila reveals that olfaction more strongly influences stimulus-seeking behavior than tast...

The Kaun Lab is hiring new full-time Research Assistants!The position is ideal for someone interested in investigating how changes in gene regulation impact individual variation in addictive substance...

The University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is proud to announce that Professor Joel Levine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the highest h...

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Karla Kaun argues that addiction researchers should talk about their work in their everyday lives. Those conversations can shape how drug, tobacco and alcohol use is studied in labs, taught in schools...

The knowledge gap between scientists, health-care professionals, policymakers and people with mental health conditions is growing, slowing the translation of basic science to new treatments.

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Mathematical modelling suggests that it is theoretically possible to reduce risk of common diseases using heritable genome editing. Scientists argue that the technology involves considerable risk and uncertain benefits. Pitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits.

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Artificial intelligence and human expertise meet to generate a map of all the connections in the fly brain. The resource is already being used by experimentalists and theoreticians to further our unde...

Artificial intelligence and human expertise meet to generate a map of all the connections in the fly brain. The resource is already being used by experimentalists and theoreticians to further our unde...

The Department of Biology at Providence College in Providence, RI invites applicationsfor a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2025. Weseek outstanding candidate...

We are looking for a research assistant interested in the functional implications of co-transmission to join our team!This position will have five major duties including performing: 1) Drosophila bra...

Dr. Andre Fiala and Dr. Karla Kaun collaborated to act as Special Guest Editors for the journal Learning & Memory on a special issue on the mushroom body to celebrate 25 years of progress since the in...

Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than overdoses from opioids and all other substances combined, yet less than 10% of people with alcohol use disorder receive treatment.

We are looking for a molecular biologist to join our team! This position will have four major duties: 1) performing and assisting lab members on molecular biology experiments, 2) performing DNA extrac...