Lori Snyder PhD

Dr Lori Snyder has been awarded the prestigious W H Pierce Prize by the Society for Applied Microbiology, is a member of the Prokaryotic Division committee of the Microbiology Society, and is an assessment panel chair for the Equality Challenge Unit Athena SWAN awards. Her innovations have been finalists for the Forerunner Prize and BioStars.

Dr. Snyder graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 2001 with a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. During her PhD, she conducted genomic analyses at the dawn of bacterial genomics, investigating Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis with Prof. Bill Shafer. In 1995, shortly after the publication of the first bacterial genome sequences, she analyzed and interpreted the incomplete genome sequence data of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and used this to guide experimental research. Her first post-doctoral appointment was at the University of Oxford, where she continued her research on these species. By 2002,

Dr. Snyder was designing and using microarrays at the forefront of the transcriptomics field and was the principal designer of the pan-Neisseria microarray as well as aiding in the design and manufacture of other microarrays. In 2007, she was appointed as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham where she worked with Prof. Mark Pallen and Dr. Nick Loman. She has assisted the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute with genome annotation and analysis and worked as a bioinformatician supporting the xBASE public genome sequence analysis database.