Bio
Daniela earned a degree in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology from UC Davis in June 2025. She initially joined the Dennis Lab as an undergraduate husbandry assistant and transitioned into the undergrad fish manager with responsibility for fish care, vivarium operations, and oversight of other undergraduates. As a PREP@UC Davis scholar, she will study use a multidisciplinary approach to study the impact of human specific duplicated genes and how novel variants contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders and traits such as autism.