UC Berkeley lab lead by Prof. Daniela Kaufer studying stress, aging, and blood brain barrier dysfunction. Tweets by lab members unless signed DK.
Joined January 2020
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8 Jul 2024
The Kaufer Lab is recruiting for a staff scientist position! Please share with anyone who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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6 Oct 2023
My team at the Innovative Genomics Institute @igisci at Berkeley is looking for a new research associate with histology experience! Consider applying if you’re looking to work with really cool new technologies in the genome editing space. careerspub.universityofcalif…
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14 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023
❓ Did you know that AD-tau accumulates first in subcortical nuclei? 🧠 Check out the latest findings of clinical, diagnostic and therapeutics consequences of early tau changes in AD @NSS_PIA at PIA day at 4 pm! 👇👇👇 #AAIC23 @ISTAART @HeidiJacobsLab @ajehrenberg @grinberg_t
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2 May 2023
@KauferLab undergraduate student, Ria Khera, successfully presented her honor thesis research on ‘Long term impact of chronic stress in hippocampal memory cells’ at the @berkeleyIB Honor Poster Session. Congrats Ria!
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27 Apr 2023
If you are attending #SOBP2023 and interested in learning more about our new findings on psychedelics and glia, please stop by @KauferLab posters tomorrow & Saturday!
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18 Mar 2023
Delighted to announce that I’ve received the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship! As @UC_PPFP fellow, I will be investigating the glial mechanisms of psychedelic medicine in the male and female brains. Special thanks to Dr. Kaufer and members of @KauferLab for their support.
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16 Jan 2023
Newest paper from the lab! Serum albumin-induced TGFbeta activation can drive astrocyte senescence. Important considerations for connections between blood brain barrier dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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16 Jan 2023
Just out! The inaugural position paper from the @NSS_PIA of @ISTAART. The group focuses on neuromodulatory subcortical systems in neurodegenerative diseases and this paper highlights recommendations for research and funding priorities. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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11 Jan 2023
50k(ish) is right! If you're as surprised by this as me and @npp_journal - you should be! Our LC is about 125% smaller than expected for our neocortex given scaling in other primates. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
ALT A graph from Fig 2 in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820586/
11 Jan 2023
While estimates vary a bit across studies depending on methodologies, the human LC contains somewhere in the range of 50K. LC neurons are the primary source of norepinephrine for the brain,
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Congratulations to @UCBerkeleyNeuro grad student Yanabah Jaques, who received a #GilliamFellows award from @HHMINEWS! buff.ly/3oMg4XX 🎉@KauferLab @berkeleyIB
ALT Headshot of Yanabah Jaques in a circle shape, in front of a yellow and blue background. Berkeley Letters & Science logo at bottom right corner. Copy states: Yanabah Jaques, 2022 HHMI Gilliam Fellow
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28 Jul 2022
We are over the moon about @UCBerkeleyNeuro grad student Yanabah Jaques recieving a #GilliamFellows award from @HHMINEWS! This fellowship will support Yanabah's important work studying the relationships between stress and impulsivity.
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18 Feb 2022
A group of Bay Area scientists have unraveled some surprising secrets about post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD which one day could lead to better therapies and treatments. sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20…
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18 Feb 2022
Check out coverage @KPIXtv on Kim Long's study from the lab unraveling the interactions between stress behavior and regional gray matter differences. Great collaboration with @UCSF and @SFVAMC investigators Tom Neylan & Linda Chao. sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20… @UCBerkeleyNews
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24 Jan 2022
Interested in neuropsychiatric symptom etiology in Alzheimer's? Join me, @MikeKelberman and others for an @ISTAART webinar on Feb 10! Free to register training.alz.org/products/42…
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22 Jul 2021
The entire lab is proud to share that Dr. Kaufer has learned she is among this year's @Falling_Walls #ScienceBreakthroughs finalists! #ScienceReunitesUs falling-walls.com/breakthrou…
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20 Jul 2021
Why do we help some individuals and not others?
Out in @eLife: our findings of the neural network associated with empathic helping in rats.
with @KauferLab @joce_breton @KarlDiesseroth @Franklandlab Dacher Keltner and colleagues.
elifesciences.org/articles/6…
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13 Jul 2021
New from the Kaufer lab @eLife "Neural correlates of ingroup bias for prosociality in rats." Here, previous lab member Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal and others shine light on the brain circuits underlying prosocial behavior in mammals elifesciences.org/articles/6… @joce_breton @UCBerkeleyNeuro
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