Seth Ament

Seth A. Ament is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, affiliated with the Institute for Genome Sciences and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. He holds appointments in Psychiatry, Genomics, and Neuroscience. His research focuses on genetic and genomic mechanisms underlying brain disorders, integrating single-cell genomics, systems biology, and stem cell models.

Education: PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010); A.B. in Biology from Harvard University (2003).

Research interests include psychiatric disorders (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia), neurodegenerative diseases (Huntington’s), and hearing loss. He employs genomic sequencing, transcriptional network modeling, and collaborative consortia like the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network. Notable projects involve rare variant discovery, stem cell-derived neuron modeling, and functional genomics.

Key collaborations include work on the Amish population for genetic studies and development of the Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive (NeMO). His lab is based in Baltimore, with a focus on translational research linking genomic data to clinical biomarkers and therapies.