Rate My Professor Michael Snyder

Snyder is a leader in the field of functional genomics and proteomics and one of the major participants in the ENCODE project. His laboratory performed the first large-scale functional genomics project in any organism and developed numerous technologies, including proteome chips, high-resolution tiling arrays for the human genome, methods for global mapping of transcription factor binding sites, paired-end sequencing for structural variation, de novo genome sequencing using high-throughput technologies, and RNA-Seq. Seminal findings include the discovery that much more of the human genome is transcribed and contains regulatory information than previously appreciated, along with high diversity of transcription factor binding both between and within species. He combined multiple omics technologies to perform the first longitudinal integrative personal omics profile (iPOP) of an individual and used this approach to assess disease risk and monitor disease states for personalized medicine. Snyder is the author of the book Genomics and Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know.