Current Lab Members
Seth Ament
Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Institute for Genome Sciences Maryland Psychiatric Research Center University of Maryland --…
Brian Herb
Brian is a Research Associate who studies the development, function, and disease etiology of cell types in the brain through novel bioinformatic analyses…
Sterling Arjona
Sterling is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Seth Ament’s lab. She is currently studying the role of SETD1A mutations in the pathogenesis of…
Yumna Ahmed
Yumna is a research fellow in the Ament lab exploring the clinical effects of SETD1A in the Old Order Amish population. She's interested…
Bobby Lease
I am a fifth year PhD student in the lab. My research uses patient-derived stem cells to uncover mechanisms that could increase risk…
Ben Grissom
Ben is a PhD candidate in the Molecular Medicine program's Genome Biology track. He works with single cell sequencing data and is excited…
Aditi Biswas
Aditi is a graduate student in the Genome Biology track of the Molecular Medicine program. Her academic interests include single-cell and spatial transcriptomics,…
Bareera Qamar
Bareera completed her Bachelor of Science degree from University of Maryland, College Park in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Neurobiology and Physiology.…
Erin Wildermuth
Erin is an MD/PhD student interested in molecular aging and the human brain. When she isn't thinking, writing or reading about human progress…
Lab Affiliates
Carlo Colantuoni. Bioinformatics Software Engineer (part-time), Institute for Genome Sciences, and Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lab Alumni
Naushaba Hasin, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020; Current: Scientist at MilliporeSigma
Rediet Oshone, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2021, Current: Genome Engineering Scientist, Colossal Biosciences
Elizabeth Humphries, PhD in Molecular Epidemiology, 2017-2021; Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Gurmannat Kalra, PhD in Molecular Medicine, Current: Computational Biologist, GlaxoSmithKline
Wissam Saleh, MS in Human Genetics, 2017-2020; Current: Lecturer in Palestine
Sonia Malaya, MS in Human Genetics, 2017-2019; Research Fellow 2019-2022; Current: UMB PhD Program in Neuroscience
Fahimeh Mirakhori, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019, Current: Stem Cell Engineering Scientist, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Christopher Bain, Undergraduate Intern (UMBC, Meyerhoff), 2020-2021
Samaneh Ali, Undergraduate Intern (UMBC, Meyerhoff, U-RISE), 2020-2022; Current: Technician, Ament Lab
Parth Bhatia, MS in Human Genetics, 2020-2022; Current: Research Fellow, Mass General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Jayme Choe, MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2021-2022; Current: Clinical Psychology PhD Program, Long Island University
Alex Casella, MD/PhD in Molecular Medicine, 2017-2023; Current: Residency in Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine