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Ph D, Brown University

B Sc, University of Connecticut

B Sc, University of Connecticut

Nunez, K. M.,Catalano, J. L.,Scaplen, K.,Kaun, K. R., Ethanol Behavioral Response in Drosophila, Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2023.

Nunez, K. M.,Catalano, J. L.,Scaplen, K.,Kaun, K. R., Methods for exploring the circuit basis of ethanol-induced changes in Drosophila group locomotor activity, Cold Spring Harbor Press, 2023.

Rose, J. K.,Scaplen, K.,Mizumori, S. J.,Roberts, A. C., Editorial: Modulation of behavioral outcomes by conditioning competing states, valences, or responses, Fronteira in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022.

Devineni, A. V.,Scaplen, K. M., Neural Circuits Underlying Behavioral Flexibility: Insights from Drosophila, Frontiers In Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022.

Scaplen, K. M.,Talay, M.,Fisher, J. D.,Cohn, R.,Sorkaç, A.,Aso, Y.,Barnea, G.,Kaun, K. R., Transsynaptic mapping of Drosophila mushroom body output neurons, eLife, 2021.

Scaplen, K.,Petruccelli, E., Receptors and Channels Associated with Alcohol Use: Contributions from Drosophila, Neuroscience Insights, 2021.

Scaplen, K. M.,Talay, M.,Nuñez, K. M.,Salamon, S.,Waterman, A. G.,Gang, S.,Song, S. L.,Barnea, G.,Kaun, K. R., Circuits that encode and guide alcohol-associated preference, eLife, 2020.

Scaplen, K.,Mei, N. J.,Bounds, H. A.,Song, S. L.,Azanchi, R.,Kaun, K. R., Automated real-time quantification of group locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster, Scientific Reports, 2019.

Scaplen, K.,Talay, M.,Salamon, S.,Nuñez, K. M.,Waterman, A. G.,Gang, S.,Song, S. L.,Barnea, G.,Kaun, K. R., Circuits that encode and predict alcohol associated preference, BioRxiv/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2019.

Scaplen, K.,Ramesh, R. N.,Nadvar, N.,Ahmed, O. J.,Burwell, R. D., Inactivation of the Lateral Entorhinal Area Increases the Influence of Visual Cues on Hippocampal Place Cell Activity, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2017.

Scaplen, K.,Agster, K. L.,Burwell, R. D., Anatomy of the Hippocampus and the Declarative Memory System ☆, Elsevier, 2017.

Scaplen, K.,Kaun, K. R., Reward from bugs to bipeds: a comparative approach to understanding how reward circuits function, Journal of Neurogenetics, 2016.

Scaplen, K.,Gulati, A. A.,Heimer-McGinn, V. L.,Burwell, R. D., Objects and landmarks: Hippocampal place cells respond differently to manipulations of visual cues depending on size, perspective, and experience, Hippocampus, 2014.

Furtak, S. C.,Cho, C. W.,Kerr, K.,Barredo, J. L.,Alleyne, J. E.,Patterson, Y. R.,Burwell, R. D., The Floor Projection Maze: A novel behavioral apparatus for presenting visual stimuli to rats, Journal of Neuroscience Methods/Elsevier, 2009.

Lewis, M. C.,Kerr (Scaplen), K. M.,Orr, P. T.,Frick, K. M., Estradiol-induced enhancement of object memory consolidation involves NMDA receptors and protein kinase A in the dorsal hippocampus of female C57BL/6 mice., Behavioral Neuroscience, 2008.

Kerr (Scaplen), K. M.,Agster, K. L.,Furtak, S. C.,Burwell, R. D., Functional neuroanatomy of the parahippocampal region: The lateral and medial entorhinal areas, Hippocampus, 2007.

Gresack, J. E.,Kerr (Scaplen), K. M.,Frick, K. M., Short-term environmental enrichment decreases the mnemonic response to estrogen in young, but not aged, female mice, Brain Research, 2007.

Gresack, J. E.,Kerr (Scaplen), K. M.,Frick, K. M., Life-long environmental enrichment differentially affects the mnemonic response to estrogen in young, middle-aged, and aged female mice, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2007.

Â鶹ӰÒô Convocation Address 2024, 2024

Merit, 2024

Research Engagement Day Director's Award, 2024

Women's Basketball Honorary Coach, 2023

Excellence in Teaching, 2023

Merit, 2022

Neuroscience, Psychology, Learning and Memory, Sensation and Perception, Neurogenetics

I have a long-standing interest in understanding neural circuitry mechanisms underlying learning and memory across species. I currently use a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the mechanisms of learning and memory and understand how they are disrupted by drugs of abuse or other maladaptive conditions. The focus of my work is to understand how neural circuits for pathologic memories are established and change with experience to ultimately guide maladaptive reward seeking. My long-term research goal is to capitalize on the Drosophila model to reveal general circuitry principles for how circuits function and change with experience in adaptive and maladaptive models to better understand how local circuits function in the broader context of the mammalian brain.

Genetics Society of America

Pavlovian Society

International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society

Brown University Chapter of Sigma Xi

Society for Neuroscience