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







Ria Khera
Volunteer Researchers
Ria Khera Celine Wang Jane Kim Anna Jacobowitz Zeynep Demirag Meghana Ramineni

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)
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)