Publications

For an up-to-date list of publications, see Google Scholar.

Note: For all publications, * is used to indicate equal contributions, while # is used to indicate corresponding authors.

1.  Ament SA, Bullis R, Hanlon RT, Mensinger A. Righting response and escape response in Opsanus tau are temperature dependent. Biol Bull. 1997; 193:265-266.

2. Hanlon RT, Ament SA, Gabr H. Behavioral aspects of sperm competition in cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis (Sepioidea: Cephalopoda). Marine Biol. 1999; 134:719-728.

3. Shashar N, Borst DT, Ament SA, Saidel WM, Smolowitz RM, Hanlon RT. Polarization reflecting iridophores in the arms of the squid Loligo pealeii. Biol Bull. 2000; 201:267-268.

4. Weinstock G*, Robinson GE*, et al. (along with the Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium, including Ament S.A.) Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature. 2006 Oct 26;443(7114):931-49. doi: 10.1038/nature05260.

5. Kunieda T*, Fujiyuki T*, Kucharski R*, Foret S*, Ament SA*, Toth AL*, Ohashi K, Takeuchi H, Kamikouchi A, Kage E, Morioka M, Beye M, Kubo T, Robinson GE, Maleszka R. Carbohydrate metabolism genes and pathways in insects: insights from the honey bee genome. Insect Mol Biol. 2006; 15:563-576.

6. Ament SA, Corona M, Pollock HS, Robinson GE. Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2008 Mar 18;105(11):4226-31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800630105.

7. Brockmann A. Annangudi SP, Richmond TA, Ament SA, Xie F, Southey BR, Rodriguez-Zas SR, Sweedler JV, Robinson GE. Quantitative peptidomics reveal brain peptide signatures of behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2009 Feb 17;106(7):2383-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0813021106.

8. Ament SA, Wang Y, Robinson GE. Nutritional regulation of worker division labor in honey bee colonies: a systems perspective. Wiley Interdiscipl Rev: Systems Biol Med. 2010 Sep-Oct;2(5):566-576. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.73.

9. Ament SA, Velarde RA, Kolodkin M, Moyse D, Robinson GE. Neuropeptide Y-like signaling and nutritionally-mediated gene expression and behavior in the honey bee. Insect Mol Biol. 2011;20(3):335-345.

10. Ament SA, Chan QW, Wheeler MW, Nixon SE, Johnson SP, Rodriguez-Zas SR, Foster LJ, Robinson GE. Mechanisms of stable lipid loss in a social insect. J Exp Biol. 2011 Nov 15;214(Pt 22):3808-21. doi: 10.1242/jeb.060244.

11. Chandrasekaran S, Ament SA, Eddy JA, Rodriguez-Zas SR, Schatz BR, Price ND, Robinson GE. Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011 Nov 1;108(44):18020-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1114093108.

12. Ament SA*, Wang Y*, Chen CC, Blatti C, Hong F, Negre N, White KP, Rodriguez-Zas SL, Mizzen CA, Sinha S, Zhong S, Robinson GE. The transcription factor ultraspiracle influences honey bee social behavior and behavior-related gene expression. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(3):e1002596. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002596.

13. Ament SA*, Blatti C*, Alaux C*, Wheeler MW, Toth AL, Le Conte Y, Hunt GJ, Guzmán-Novoa E, DeGrandi-Hoffman G, Uribe-Rubio JL, Amdam GV, Page RE, Rodriguez-Zas SL, Robinson GE. Sinha S. New meta-analysis tools reveal common transcriptional regulatory basis for multiple determinants of behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2012 Jun 26;109(26):E1801-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205283109.

14. Greenberg J, Xia J, Zhou X, Thatcher SR, Ament SA, Newman TC, Green PJ, Zhang W, Robinson GE, Ben-Shahar Y. Behavioral plasticity in honey bees is associated with differences in brain microRNA transcriptome. Genes Brain Behav. 2012;11(6):660-670.

15. Ko Y*, Ament SA*, Caballero J, Earls JC, Hood L, Price ND. Cell-type specific genes show striking and distinct patterns of spatial expression in the mouse brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2013 Feb 19;110(8):3095-100. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1222897110.

16. Wheeler MM, Ament SA, Rodriguez-Zas SM, Robinson GE. Brain gene expression changes elicited by peripheral vitellogenin knockdown in the honey bee. Insect Mol Biol. 2013;22:562-573.

17. Brownstein CA et al. (along with the CLARITY Challenge consortium, incl. Ament SA), An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results: The CLARITY Challenge. Genome Biol. 2014;15(3):R53.

18. Glusman G, Dhankani V, Robinson M, Farrah T, Mauldin DE, Severson A, Stittrich AB, Ament SA, Roach JC, Brunkow ME, Bodian DL, Vockley JG, Shmulevich I, Niederhuber JI, Hood L. Identification of copy number variants in whole-genome data using Reference Coverage Profiles. Front Genet. 2015 Feb 17;6:45. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00045.

19. Ament SA, Szelinger S, Glusman G, Ashworth J, Hou L, Akula N, Shekhtman T, Badner JA, Brunkow ME, Mauldin DE, Stittrich AB, Rouleau K, Detera-Wadleigh S, Nurnberger JI, Edenberg HJ, Gershon ES, Schork NJ, The Bipolar Genome Study, Price ND, Gelinas R, Hood L, Craig DW, McMahon FJ, Kelsoe JR, Roach JC. Rare variants in neuronal excitability genes influence risk for bipolar disorder. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2015;112(11):3576-3581.

20. Wheeler MM, Ament SA, Rodriguez-Zas SM, Southey B, Robinson GE. Diet and endocrine effects on behavioral maturation-related gene expression in the pars intercerebralis of the honey bee brain. J Exp Biol. 2015;218:4005-4014.

21. Bragg RM, Coffey SR, Weston RM, Ament SA, Cantle JP, Minnig S, Funk CC, Shuttleworth DD, Woods EL, Sullivan BR, Jones L, Glickenhaus A, Anderson JS, Anderson MD, Dunnett SB, Wheeler VC, MacDonald ME, Brooks SP, Price ND, Carroll JB. Motivational, proteostatic and transcriptional deficits precede synapse loss, gliosis and neurodegeneration in the B6.HttQ111/+ model of Huntington's disease. Scientific Reports. 2017;7:41570. 

22. Ament SA*, Pearl JR*, Grindeland A*, St. Claire J, Earls JC, Kovalenko M, Gillis T, Mysore J, Gusella JF, Lee JM, Kwak S, Howland D, Lee M, Baxter D, Scherler K, Wang K, Geman D, Carroll JB, MacDonald ME, Goodman N, Carlson G, Wheeler VC, Price ND, Hood LE. High resolution time-course mapping of early transcriptomic, molecular and cellular phenotypes in Huntington’s disease CAG knock-in mice across multiple genetic backgrounds. Human Mol Genet. 2017;26(5):913-922.

23. Bruce HA, Kochunov P, Paciga SA, Hyde CL, Chen X, Xie Z, Zhang B, Xi HS, O’Donnell P, Whelan C, Schubert CR, Bellon A, Ament SA, Shukla DK, Du X, Rowland LM, O’Neill H, Hong LE. Potassium channel gene associations with joint processing speed and white matter impairments in schizophrenia. Genes Brain Behav. 2017;16(5):515-21.

24. Coffey SR, Bragg RM, Minnig S, Ament SA, Glickenhaus A, Shelnut D, Carrillo JM, Shuttleworth DD, Rodier J-A, Noguchi K, Bennett CF, Price ND, Kordasiewicz JB, Carroll JB. Peripheral Htt silencing does not ameliorate central signs of disease in the B6.HttQ111/+ mouse model of Huntington’s disease. PLoS One. 2017;12(4):e0175968.

25. Ryan M, Kochunov P, Rowland LM, Mitchell BD, Wijtenburg SA, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Du X, Adhikari B, Fisseha F, Bruce H, Chiappelli J, Sampath H, Ament S, O’Connell J, Shuldiner AR, Hong LE. Lipid metabolism, abdominal adiposity, and cerebral health in the Amish. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017;25(11):1876-80.

26. Ament SA, Pearl JR, Bragg RM, Skene P, Coffey SR, Plaisier CL, Wheeler VC, MacDonald ME, Baliga NS, Rosinski J, Hood LE, Carroll JB, Price ND. Transcriptional regulatory networks underlying gene expression changes in Huntington’s disease. Mol Syst Biol. 2018;14(3):e7435.

27. Glahn DC, Nimgaonkar VL, Raventós H, Contreras J, McIntosh AM, Thomson PA, Jablensky A, McCarthy NS, Blackburn NB, Peralta JM, Knowles EM, Mathias SR, Ament SA, McMahon FJ, Gur RC, Bucan M, Curran JE, Almasy L, Gur RE, Blangero J. Rediscovering the value of families for psychiatric genetics research. Mol Psychiatry. 2019;24(4):523-35.

28. Budde M, Friedrichs S, Alley-Rodriguez N, Ament SA, Badner JA, Berrettini WH, Byerley W, Cichon S, Comes AL, Coryell W, Craig DW, Degenhardt F, Edenberg HJ, Foroud T, Forstner AJ, Frank J, Gershon ES, Goes FS, Greenwood TA, Hipolito M, Hood L, Koller DL, Lawson WB, Liu C, McInnis MG, McMahon FJ, Meier SM, Mühleisen TW, Nievergelt CM, Nurnberger JI, Nwulia EA, Potash JB, Quarless D, Rice J, Roach JC, Scheftner WA, Schork NJ, Shekhtman T, Shilling PD, Streit FS, Strohmaier J, Szelinger S, Treutlein J, Witt SH, Zandi PP, Bickeböller H, Falkai PG, Kelsoe JR, Nöthen MM, Rietschel M, Schulze TG, Malzahn D. Efficient genomic region-based testing uncovers genetic risk factors for inter-episode functional outcome in bipolar disorder. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2019;29(1):156-70.

29. Pearl JR, Colantuoni C, Bergey DE, Funk CC, Basu B, Casella AM, Oshone R, Shannon P, Hood L, Price ND, Ament SA. Genome-scale transcriptional regulatory network models of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Cell Syst. 2019;8(2):122-35.e7.

30. Bruce HA, Kochunov P, Mitchell B, Strauss KA, Ament SA, Rowland LM, Du X, Fisseha F, Kavita T, Chiappelli J, Wisner K, Sampath H, Chen S, Kvarta MD, Seneviratne C, Postolache TT, Bellon A, McMahon FJ, Shuldiner A, Hong LE. Clinical and genetic validity of quantitative bipolarity. Transl Psychiatry. 2019;9(1):228.

31. Chan JC, Morgan CP, Leu NA, Shetty A, Cisse YM, Nugent BM, Morrison KE, Jašarević E, Huang W, Kanyuch N, Rodgers AB, Bhanu NV, Berger D, Garcia BA, Ament SA, Kane M, Epperson CM, Bale TL. Reproductive tract extracellular vesicles are sufficient to transmit intergenerational stress and program neurodevelopment. Nat Commun. 2020;11:1499.

32. Funk CC, Casella AM, Jung S, Richards M, Rodriguez A, Shannon P, Donovan R, Heavner B, Chard K, Xiao Y, Glusman G, Erleskin-Taner N, Golde T, Toga A, Hood L, Van Horn JD, Kesselman C, Foster I, Madduri R, Price ND, Ament SA. Atlas of transcription factor binding sites from ENCODE DNase hypersensitivity data across 27 tissue types. Cell Rep. 2020;32(7):108029.

33. Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, Song Y, Herb BR, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. PLoS Genet. 2020;16(9):e1009025.

34. Morgan CP, Shetty AC, Chan JC, Berger DS, Ament SA, Epperson CN, Bale TL. A within- and between-subject modeling of the human sperm transcriptome identifies dynamic and stress-responsive sncRNAs. Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):1-20.

35. Bruce H, Kochunov P, Chiappelli J, Savransky T, Scarino K, Sewell J, Marshall W, Kvarta M, McMahon FJ, Ament SA, Postolache T, O’Connell J, Shuldiner A, Mitchell B, Hong LE. Genetic vs stress and mood determinants of sleep in the Amish. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2021;186(2):113-21.

36. Kvarta M, Bruce H, Chiappelli J, Hare S, Goldwaser E, Sewell J, Sampath H, Lightner S, Marshall W, Hatch K, Humphries E, Ament S, Shuldiner A, Mitchell B, McMahon F, Kochunov P, Hong LE. Multidimensional stress vs genetics in depression. Transl Psychiatry. 2021;11(1):254.

37. Malaiya S, Cortes-Gutierrez M, Herb BR, Coffey SR, Legg SRW, Cantle BP, Carroll JB, Ament SA. Single-nucleus RNA-seq reveals dysregulation of striatal cell identity due to Huntington’s disease mutations. J Neurosci. 2021;41(25):5534-52.

38. Orvis J, Gottfried B, Kancherla J, Adkins RS, Song Y, Dror AA, Olley D, Rose K, Chrysostomou E, Kelly MC, Milon B, Matern MS, Azaiez H, Herb B, Colantuoni C, Carter RL, Ament SA, Kelley MW, White O, Corrada Bravo H, Mahurkar A, Hertzano R. gEAR: gene Expression Analysis Resource portal for community-driven, multi-omic data exploration. Nat Methods. 2021;18(8):843-4. doi:10.1038/s41592-021-01200-9.

39. Bakken TE et al. (along with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network, including Ament SA). Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset, and mouse. Nature. 2021;598:111-9.

40. Ziffra RS, Kim CN, Wilfert A, Turner TN, Haeussler M, Casella AM, Przytycki PF, Kreimer A, Pollard KS, Ament SA, Eichler EE, Ahituv N, Nowakowski TJ. Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development. Nature. 2021;598:205-13.

41. Adkins RS et al. (including the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network, including Ament SA). A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex. Nature. 2021;598:86-102.

42. Yao Z, Liu H, Xie F, Fischer S, et al. (along with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network, including Ament SA). A transcriptomic and epigenomic atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex. Nature. 2021;598:103-10.

43. Mocci E, Goto T, Chen J, Ament S, Traub RJ, Dorsey SG. Early and late transcriptional changes in blood, neural, and colon tissues in rat models of stress-induced and comorbid pain hypersensitivity reveal regulatory roles in neurological disease. Front Pain Res. 2022;3:886042.

44. Hasin N, Riggs LM, Shekhtman T, Ashworth J, Lease R, Oshone RT, Humphries EM, Badner JA, Thompson PA, Glahn DC, Craig DW, Edenberg HJ, Gershon ES, McMahon FJ, Nurnberger JI, Zandi PP, Kelsoe JR, Roach JC, Gould TD, Ament SA. Rare variants implicate NMDA receptor signaling and cerebellar gene networks in risk for bipolar disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Sep;27(9):3842-3856. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01609-4.

45. Casella AM, Colantuoni C, Ament SA. Regulome-wide association study identifies enhancer properties associated with risk for schizophrenia. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022;18(9):e1010430.

46. Fox ME, Wulff AB, Franco D, Choi E, Calarco CA, Engeln M, Turner MD, Chandra R, Rhodes VM, Thompson SM, Ament SA, Lobo MK. Adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypes mediate negative affective behaviors in fentanyl abstinence. Biol Psychiatry. 2023;93(6):489-501.

47. Ament SA#, Adkins RS, Carter R, Chrysostomou E, Colantuoni C, Crabtree J, Creasy HH, Degatano K, Felix V, Gandt P, Garden GA, Giglio M, Herb BR, Khajouei F, Kiernan E, McCracken C, McDaniel K, Nadendla S, Nickel L, Olley D, Orvis J, Receveur JP, Schor M, Sonthalia S, Tickle TL, Way J, Hertzano R, Mahurkar AA, White OR#. The Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive: a BRAIN Initiative resource for single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic data from the mammalian brain. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023;51(D1):D996-D1009. doi:10.1093/nar/gkac962.

48. Morais-Silva G, Campbell R, Nam H, Basu M, Finocchio Pagliusi MO, Fox ME, Chan S, Iñiguez SE, Ament SA, Cramer N, Marin MT, Lobo MK. Molecular, circuit, and stress response characterization of ventral pallidum Npas1-neurons. J Neurosci. 2023 Jan 18;43(3):405-418. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0971-22.2022.

49. Chiappelli J, Adhikari B, Kvarta MD, Bruce HA, Goldwaser EL, Ma Y, Chen S, Ament S, Shuldiner AR, Mitchell BD, Kochunov P, Wang DJ, Hong LE. Depression, stress, and regional cerebral blood flow. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2023;43(5):791-800. doi:10.1177/0271678X221148979.

50. Humphries EM, Ahn K, Kember RL, Lopes F, Mocci E, Peralta JM, Blangero J, Glahn DC, Goes F, Zandi PP, Kochunov P, Van Hout C, Shuldiner AR, Pollin TI, Mitchell BD, Bucan M, Hong LE, McMahon FJ, Ament SA. Genome-wide significant risk loci for mood disorders in the Old Order Amish founder population. Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;28(12):5262-5271. doi:10.1038/s41380-023-02014-1.

51. Chun Y, Miyamoto M, Williams C, Neitzel L, Silver-Isenstadt M, Cadar A, Fuller D, Fong D, Liu H, Lease R, Kim S, Katagiri M, Durbin M, Wang KC, Feaster T, Sheng C, Neely M, Sreenivasan U, Cortes-Gutierrez M, Finn A, Schot R, Mancini G, Ament S, Ess K, Bowman A, Bichell D, Su Y, Han Z, Hong C. Impaired reorganization of centrosome structure underlies human congenital dilated cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2023;147:1291-303.

52. Ament SA, Poulopoulos A. The brain’s dark transcriptome: Sequencing RNA in distal compartments of neurons and glia. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2023;81:102725.

53. BICCN Data Ecosystem Collaboration, including Ament SA. A guide to the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network data ecosystem. PLoS Biol. 2023;21(10):e3002133. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002133.

54. Olusakin J, Kumar G, Basu M, Calarco CA, Fox ME, Alipio JB, Haga C, Turner MD, Keller A, Ament SA, Lobo MK. Sex-specific transcriptomic profiling of reward and sensory brain areas in perinatal fentanyl exposed juvenile mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023;48(12):1724-34.

55. Smolyak D, Humphries EM, Parikh A, Bjarnadóttir M, Ament SA, El Metwally D, Beitelshees A, Agarwal R. Predicting heterogeneity in patient response to pharmacological treatment for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2023;114(5):1015-22. doi:10.1002/cpt.3007.

56. Ament SA#, Cortes-Gutierrez M, Herb BR, Mocci E, Colantuoni C, McCarthy MM#. A single-cell genomic atlas for the early-childhood maturation of the human cerebellum. Sci Transl Med. 2023;15(721):eade1283. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.ade1283.

57. Mocci E, Ward K, Starkweather A, Stone LS, Schabrun SM, Renn C, Dorsey SG#, Ament SA#. Joint genome-wide association study of 17 pain susceptibility traits reveals 99 risk loci and pleiotropic relationships with psychiatric, metabolic, and immunological traits. PLoS Genet. 2023;19(10):e1010977.

58. Herb BR*, Glover HJ*, Bhaduri A, Colantuoni C, Bale TL, Siletti K, Linnarsson S, Hodge R, Lein E, Kriegstein AR, Doege CA#, Ament SA#. Single-cell genomics reveals region-specific developmental trajectories underlying neuronal diversity in the human hypothalamus. Sci Adv. 2023;9(45):eadf6251.

59. Kalra G, Lenz D, Abdul-Aziz D, Hanna C, Herb BR, Colantuoni C, Milon B, Saxena M, Shetty AC, Hertzano R, Shivdasani RA, Ament SA, Edge ASB. Cochlear organoids reveal epigenetic and transcriptional programs of postnatal hair cell differentiation from supporting cells. Cell Rep. 2023;42(11):113421.

60. Bernat N, Campbell R, Nam H, Basu M, Odesser T, Elyasaf G, Engeln M, Chandra R, Golden S, Ament S, Lobo MK, Kupchik Y. Multimodal interrogation of ventral pallidum projections reveals projection-specific signatures and opposite roles in cocaine withdrawal. J Neurosci. 2024;44(18):e1469232024.

61. Fox L, Ostman A, Montemarano A, Jennings J, Seifert T, Lookfong N, Basu M, Ament SA, Fox M. Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse ventral tegmental area. Addict Biol. 2024;e13403. doi:10.1111/adb.13403.

62. Ament SA et al. (along with the Single-Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV Consortium). The Single-Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV Consortium. Mol Psychiatry. 2024 Dec;29(12):3950-3961. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02620-7.

63. Blanchard AC, Maximova A, Phillips-Jones T, Bruce MR, Anastasiadis P, Dionisos CV, Engel K, Malaiya S, Reinl EL, Pham A, Singh N, Ament S, McCarthy MM. Mast cells proliferate in the peri-hippocampal space during early development and modulate local and peripheral immune cells. Dev Cell. 2025 Mar 24;60(6):853-870.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.11.015.

64. Donohue B, Gao S, Nichols TE, Hatch K, Adhikari B, Ma Y, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Glahn D, McMahon F, Humphries EM, Ament SA, Mitchell BD, Ma T, Chen S, Medland S, Blangero J, Hong LE, Kochunov P. Accelerating heritability, genetic correlation, and genome-wide association imaging genetic analyses in complex pedigrees. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024;45(17):e70044.

65. Pearl JR, Cantle J, Shetty AC, Bergey DE, Bragg RM, Coffey SR, Kordasiewicz HB, Hood LE, Price ND, Ament SA, Carroll JB. Altered Huntingtin-chromatin interactions predict transcriptional and epigenetic changes in Huntington’s disease mouse models. Dis Model Mech. 2025 May 1;18(5):dmm052282. doi:10.1242/dmm.052282.

66. Wildermuth E, Patton MS, Cortes-Gutierrez M, Jinwala Z, Grissom B, Campbell RR, Kranzler HR, Lobo MK, Ament SA#, Mathur BN#. A single-cell genomic atlas for the effects of chronic ethanol exposure in the mouse dorsal striatum. Mol Psychiatry. 2025 Sep;30(9):4320-4333. doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03014-z.

67. Marquardt AE, Basu M, VanRyzin JW, Ament SA, McCarthy MM. The transcriptome of playfulness is sex-biased in the juvenile rat medial amygdala: a role for inhibitory neurons. Cell Rep. 2025;44(6):115782.

68. Nowakowski TJ et al. (along with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network Developing Brain Working Group, including Ament SA). The new frontier of human and mammalian brain development. Nature. 2025 Nov;647(8088):51-59. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09652-1.

69. Sonthalia S, Adkins RS, Orvis J, Li G, Blanco XM, Casella A, Liu J, Stein-O’Brien G, Caffo B, Hertzano R, Mahurkar A, Gillis J, Werner J, Ma S, Micali N, Sestan N, Rakic P, Santpere G, Ament SA, Colantuoni C. NeMO Analytics: A Compendium of Transcriptomic Data for the Exploration of Neocortical Development. Nat Neurosci. 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41593-026-02204-4.

70. Kumar G, Franco D, Basu M, Olusakin J, Campbell R, Ament SA, Fox ME, Lobo MK Nucleus accumbens neuron subtype translatome signatures in socially stressed females. Neuropsychopharmacol. 2026 Apr 22. doi: 10.1038/s41386-026-02414-1..

71. Kochunov P, Gao S, Salminen LE, Jahanshad N, Nir TM, Thompson PM, Du X, Adhikari BM, Kochunov A, Cassidy R, Ma Y, Chiappelli J, Ament S, Pand Y, Chen S, Shuldiner AS, Mitchell BD, Soares LJ, Hong LE. Alzheimer’s disease-like brain pattern biomarker: capturing risks and predicting disease onset. Mol Psychiatry. 2026 Apr 27. doi: 10.1038/s41380-026-03617-0.

72. Malaiya S*, Serra R*, Cortes-Gutierrez M*, Wilhelmy BE, Jusuf E, Somalinga M, Peprah D, Nambiar H, Kim KT, Saadon J, Patel P, Yarmoska SK, Rakovec M, Kim J, Lei C, Panchagnula S, Ambrocio R, Cherney M, Morris NA, Ayithan N, Fan X, Gerzanich V, Simard JM, Badjatia N, Schwartzbauer G, Parikh GY, Ament SA#, Ciryam P#. The cellular diversity of human cerebrospinal fluid following intraventricular hemorrhage revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.657834

73. Su Y*, Liu D*, Menon V*, Song B, Boccara S, Zhang N, Zhao H, Zhao JH, Wang L, Hu N, Nzima M, Katz A, Swargam BK, Ament SA, Diao Y, Zhang H, Chao L, Hon G, Huangfu D#, Li W#. pertTF: context-aware AI modeling for genome-scale and cross-system perturbation prediction. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.12.711379

74. BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (incl. Ament S). A Community Standard Multispecies Cell Atlas of the Basal Ganglia. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.14.717814

75. Lease R*, Oshone RT*, Ahmed Y, Ali S, Arjona S, Choe J, Colantuoni C, Cortes-Gutierrez M, Herb BR, Humphries EM, Mocci E, O’Hara-Payne R, Cleck K, Kuehner R, Damcott C, Sampath H, Shaub S, Woeffel K, Wolford C, Ahn K, Detera-Wadleigh S, Markx S, Gogos JA, Kochunov P, Pollin TI, Postolache T, Shuldiner AR, McMahon FJ, Hong LE, Mitchell BD, Ament SA. Clinical, cellular, and genomic consequences of a population-enriched SETD1A missense variant. Research Sq. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9900286/v1