Lucia F. Jacobs
Principal Investigator
Lucia F. Jacobs received a bachelors of science in biology (neuroscience and behavior) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1978, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ecology and evolution from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, in 1983 and 1987, respectively. She is currently Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. She has authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, integrating ecology, animal cognition and neuroscience to study adaptive patterns of brain and behavior in diverse species. Dr. Jacobs has received awards and honors that include Prytanean and Hellman Faculty Awards (University of California, Berkeley), a Herbert Spencer Lecture (University of Oxford), and a Radcliffe Fellowship (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University).
Current Team
In 2026, we are wrapping up an analysis of adaptive radiation in the mammalian external nose. Eric Abelson (website) and Mike Kaiser (LinkedIn)are completing the phylogenetic analyses, testing our hypotheses based on data collection by Mike and Odessa Goldberg (LinkedIn), with statistical support from Frank Sulloway (website).
CalSquirrels Alumni (through 2023)
Laura Agee
Vanessa Alschuler
Alyssa Alvarez
Jordan Barlam
Jack Bayless
Eric Bloss
Christine Board
Nicole Breer
Peter Buto
Tiffany Chan
Amy Chang
Sylvia Chen
Esther Chung
Mimi Deitderich
Marisa Fong
Rashi Gupta
Courtney Hand
Emani Harris
Megan Hsaio
Amy Hseuh
Michelle Huang
Chloe HuntSamuel Kim
Paul Kim
Jiwandeep Kohli
Stephanie Kuo
Vincent La
Lisa Yoen Lee
Eileen Leung
Sophie Liu
Breana Martinez
Karissa Nishamura
Clare Sunha Park
Jihoon Park
Leticia Rios
Nozomi Sakai
Aryan Sharif
Josh Sheltzer
Patrick Slattery
Caray Slaughter
Stephanie Soultanian
Luke Strgar
Sarina Utamsing
Grace Vaziri
Alex Vu
Kristin Witte
Rachel Xiao
Alan Xu
JACOBS LAB ALUMNI
Judy Jinn. PhD 2019, Research, Facebook LinkedIn
Mikel Delgado Ph.D 2017 https://mikeldelgado.com
Aaron Teixeira Shelter Behavior Manager, San Francisco SPCA.
Amanda Robin Ph.D, Ecology and Evolution, UCLA LinkedIn
Michelle Ramey Ph.D, Neuroscience, UC Davis
Zoe Burr Department of Arctic Biology, UNIS (University Centre in Svalbard, Norway)
Simon Campo Ph.D, Yale
Allison Payne Ph.D, animal cognition, Cambridge University.
Aslan Brown Law student, UC Berkeley
Anna Khazenzon Ph.D, psychology, Stanford University
Patrick Slattery Senior Software Engineer, Uber
Anna Waismeyer Ph.D; Research Scientist, HARMAN International (Microsoft)
Tania Bettis Ph.D, Teaching Staff, Marin Academy
Xioqian Jenny Chai Ph.D, Professor of Neuroscience, McGill University
Stephanie Preston Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pierre Lavenex Postdoc, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Lausanne, CH
Cynthia Barkley Ph.D, Lecturer, California State University, East Bay