Members of the CN3
Principal Investigators
Giorgio Ascoli (Director)    
Kim "Avrama" Blackwell
Theodore "Ted" Dumas
Postdoctoral Fellows
John Baker
Julia Berzhanskaya
Wonryull Koh
Yann Lefranc  
Rodrigo Oliveira
Alexei Samsonovich   
Diek Wheeler
Software Engineer
Sridevi Polavaram
PhD Students
Kerry Brown
Sriraman Damodaran
Rebekah Evans
Michele Ferrante
Bob Gardner
Todd Gilette
Maryam Halavi
David Hamilton
Previous Postdoctoral Associates
  • Julia Berzhanskaya      Postdoctoral fellow 2006-2007 (next position: Researcher, Allen Brain Institute)
  • Mo JiLing, Postdoctoral fellow July 2001-May 2004 (next position: Postdoctoral fellow at Univeristy of California, Davis)
  • Alexander Komendantov    Postdoctoral fellow  2005-2007 (next position: Research Assistant Professor, Drexel University)
  • Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski  Postdoctoral fellow 1999-2001 (next position: Associate Professor at the Royal Institue of Technology, Stockholm)
  • Maciej Lazarewicz    Postdoctoral fellow 2000-2001 (next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Xiaoshen Li    Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2006 (next position: Scientific Staff, US Natl. Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin.)
  • Slawek Nasuto         Postdoctoral fellow 1999-2000 (next position: Assistant Professor, Reading University, UK)
  • Ruggero Scorcioni       Postdoctoral fellow 2004-2008 (next position: Fellow, Neuroscience Institute, San Diego, CA)


Previous Students
  • John Atkeson          MA Student, 2001-2003 (next position: on leave of absence)
  • Duncan Donohue    PhD student 2001 -2007 (next position: Postdoctoral fellow, NIH)
  • Katherine Eakin       Extended Studies Student 2000 (next position: PhD student, Virginia Commonwealth University)
  • Sybrand Iwema        Exchange Student 2001 (next position: Publishing manager, Elsevier)
  • Praveena Karamthoti    MA Student, 2005-2006 (next position: Medical Doctor,Fairfax, VA)
  • Rory Kirchner         PhD student 1999-2000 (next position: Graduate Student, MIT)
  • Robert Knape         Summer Student 2000 and 2001 (next position: student, University of Virginia)
  • Bonnie Lasher          MA Student, 2003-2005 (next position: PhD student, Baylor College of Medicine)
  • Philip O'Herron         Undergraduate Assistant 2001 (next position: PhD student, Johns Hopkins University)
  • Raxesh Patela            MA Student, 2005-2006 (next position: IBM Research Center, New York)
  • Shazeeb Shamshi    MA student, 2005-2007 (next position: Software Engineer at REI Systems Inc.)
  • David Velasquez      Undergraduate Assistant 2003 (next position: research fellow, National Institutes of Health)
  • Adam Vogel    MA student 2006 -2008 (next position: PhD student, University of Minnesota)
  • Kuen Hang "Susan" Yang PhD student 1996-2000 (next position: Director of International Collaborations, George Mason University)
  • William Zettler           Undergraduate Assistant 2002 (next position: student, George Mason University)
Sarah Hawes
MyungSook Kim
Justin Loe
Deepak Ropireddy
Erin Sander
Susan Wright
Student Research Assistants
Swapnil Deshmukh
Sindhu Eda
Kelly Hamilton
Collaborators
Ted Abel
University of Pennsylvania
German Barrionuevo
University of Pittsburgh 
David Jaffe
University of Texas San Antonio
Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
Royal Institute of Technology
Jeff Krichmar
University of California, Irvine
Michele Migliore
Yale University
Dietmar Plenz
National Institute of Mental Health
Steve Senft
Krasnow Institute
Manuela Zaccolo
University of Glasgow

CN3 group picture 2007

CN3 group picture 2006