Dr. Martinowich received a B.A. in International Relations from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. Following graduate work, she conducted translational research in neuropsychiatry as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. She joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins and Lieber Institute for Brain Development where she oversees a research group that takes a cross-species approach to study how programs of gene expression in defined populations of cells contribute to circuit function that is relevant for neuropsychiatric disorders. The lab uses genetic manipulation in combination with molecular, cellular and systems-level techniques in animal models, and integrate these data with cell- and circuit-specific transcriptomic studies in the postmortem human brain.