The Kaufer Lab.
Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D
Principle 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.
Staff & Students
MARCELA PREININGER
Ph.D Candidate
ALLISON GLEASON
Ph.D Candidate
Ria Khera
Andrew Ehrenberg
Sam Frias
Kelsey Hu
Kaitlyn Letourneau
Volunteer Researchers
Luisa Cacheaux
Elizabeth Kirby
Danna Krupik
Christian Mirescu
Andrea Nicholas
Lydia Wood
Noopur Amin
Kereshmeh Taravosh-Lahn
Soo-Young Kim
Chris Morrissey
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)
Shawn Shirazi
(2019, IB)
Dasha Zaytseva
(2019, CIRM Bridges Fellow)
Huanjie Sheng
(2019, IB PhD)
Jocelyn Breton
(2020, HWNI PhD)
Graduate Student Alumni
Aaron Friedman
(Lab Manager, 2009 - 2011)
Matthew Barraza
(Research Assistant, 2020 - 2021)
Jeremy Hamilton
(Lab Manager, 2011-2015)
Janine Dominique Cajanding
(Lab Manager, 2019-2021)
Jessica May Lin
(Technician, 2019 - 2021)