The Kaufer Lab.
Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D
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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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Volunteer & Visiting Researchers
Aarohi Torvi
Aditya Iyer
Alexandra Nuno
Alia Choi
Ariana Jiang
Arya Nahavandi
Ashley Park
Awab Adelgadir
Brayden Ye
Eleanor Chen
Ria Khera
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Eliza Wan
Eva Machtinger
Fabio Oh
Hita Anand
Isaac Auyeung
Janie Drum
Jeanna Smirnoff
Jia Jia He
Jiaxi Yang
Katara Chang
Kishant Mohan
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Lakshita Kutnikar​
Leila Mohammed
Lucia Zima
Madeline Denham
Maya Mehta
Nazia Islam
Poorvi Thairani
Ryan Majidy
Sadie Greenberg
Shravan Balaji
Shruti Malladi
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Sophia Park
Tiffany Zhang
Vanessa Lam
Victoria Pan
Vivian Lee
Yumin Lee
Yune Lee
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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)
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Luisa Cacheaux
(2010, HWNI PhD)
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Elizabeth Kirby
(2011, HWNI PhD)
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Laurel Barchas
(2013, IB MA)
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Lisa Margerum
(2013, IB PhD)
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Samuel Sakhai
(2014, Psychology PhD)
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Alana Wong
(2014, HWNI PhD)
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Sean Dae Houlihan
(2014, CIRM Bridges Fellow)
Anna Geraghty
(2015, IB PhD)
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David Covarrubias
(2015, MCB PhD)
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Oscar Vazquez
(2015, HWNI PhD)
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Kim Long
(2018, HWNI PhD)
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Vlad Senatorov
(2018, HWNI PhD)
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Aaron Friedman
(2018, IB PhD)
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Huanjie Sheng
(2019, IB PhD)
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Dasha Zaytseva
(2019, CIRM Bridges Fellow)
Jocelyn Breton
(2020, HWNI PhD)
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Marcela Preininger
(2022, MCB PhD)
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Allison Gleason
(2022, MechE PhD)
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Siamak Sorooshyari
(2023, IB PhD)
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Lynn Yang
(2023, IB PhD)
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Alexander Ehrenberg
(2024, IB PhD)
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Graduate Student Alumni
Aaron Friedman
(Lab Manager, 2009 - 2011)
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Matthew Barraza
(Research Assistant, 2020 - 2021)​
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Janine Dominique Cajanding
(Lab Manager, 2019-2021)
Jeremy Hamilton
(Lab Manager, 2011-2015)
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Jessica May Lin
(Technician, 2019 - 2021)
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Celine Wang,
Technician, 2023-2024
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​​Ria Khera​
(Research Assistant, 2020-2025)
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Sonali Langlois
(Lab Manager, 2023-2025)
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Jessica Redmond
(PREP Post Bacc Scholar, 2023-2025)​