Michael Snyder

Michael Snyder is a Stanford Ascherman professor, the chair of the department of genetics and director of the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA. He received his Ph.D. training at the California Institute of Technology and carried out his postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He is recognized internationally for major contributions that have revolutionized the field of genetics. He launched the first large-scale characterization of eukaryotic genes using a transposon tagging strategy. He is a co-inventor of Chip-chip and Chip-seq as well as the first chromosome tiling arrays. Snyder is also the inventor of RNA-Seq and paired-end sequencing for eukaryotic cells using high-throughput sequencing methods. Recently, he performed the first detailed longitudinal integrative personal omics profile (iPOP) of a person and used this information to assess disease risk and monitor disease states for personalized medicine.