The Kaufer Lab.
Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Daniela completed her B.Sc. at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, and in 2005 took a faculty position at UC Berkeley. In her free time, Daniela enjoys reading, yoga, meditation, hiking and camping with her family.
Postdocs & Students
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Ria Khera
Volunteer & Visiting Researchers
Anna Jacobowitz Jordan Shellow Sophia Park
Awab Abdelgadir Hita Anand Sanjana Shankar Sahar Sadat
Alia Choi Yune Lee Kishant Mohan Fabio Oh Eliza Wan
Diya Mahapatra Lilian Lu
Dr. Luisa Cacheaux
Dr. Elizabeth Kirby
Dr. Danna Krupik
Dr. Christian Mirescu
Dr. Andrea Nicholas
Dr. Lydia Wood
Dr. Noopur Amin
Dr. Kereshmeh Taravosh-Lahn
Dr. Soo-Young Kim
Dr. Chris Morrissey
Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal
Post-Doctoral Alumni
Sundari Chetty
(2009, HWNI PhD)
Luisa Cacheaux
(2010, HWNI PhD)
Elizabeth Kirby
(2011, HWNI PhD)
Laurel Barchas
(2013, IB MA)
Lisa Margerum
(2013, IB PhD)
Samuel Sakhai
(2014, Psychology PhD)
Alana Wong
(2014, HWNI PhD)
Sean Dae Houlihan
(2014, CIRM Bridges Fellow)
Anna Geraghty
(2015, IB PhD)
David Covarrubias
(2015, MCB PhD)
Oscar Vazquez
(2015, HWNI PhD)
Kim Long
(2018, HWNI PhD)
Vlad Senatorov
(2018, HWNI PhD)
Aaron Friedman
(2018, IB PhD)
Huanjie Sheng
(2019, IB PhD)
Dasha Zaytseva
(2019, CIRM Bridges Fellow)
Jocelyn Breton
(2020, HWNI PhD)
Marcela Preininger
(2022, MCB PhD)
Allison Gleason
(2022, MechE PhD)
Siamak Sorooshyari
(2023, IB PhD)
Lynn Yang
(2023, IB PhD)
Alexander Ehrenberg
(2024, IB PhD)
Graduate Student Alumni
Aaron Friedman
(Lab Manager, 2009 - 2011)
Matthew Barraza
(Research Assistant, 2020 - 2021)
Jeremy Hamilton
(Lab Manager, 2011-2015)
Jessica May Lin
(Technician, 2019 - 2021)