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Snyder is chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, a new initiative that encourages collaborations among scientists throughout the University to explore new techniques to determine the function of genes and encoded proteins in different organisms. This work will yield new insights into basic biological processes and the diversity of life and its origins, and may eventually help scientists better diagnose and treat diseases.
Snyder and his laboratory team have been engaged in analyzing the functions of the yeast genome (the complete genetic program of an organism) and are developing new approaches to the study of the more complex human genome. He is the principal investigator of a five-year, $15-million grant for human genome research awarded to Yale by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in September of 2001 and leads the NHGRI's Yale Center of Excellence in Genomic Science program.
Specifically, Snyder's projects include the global mapping of the binding sites of chromosomal proteins and the large-scale analysis of proteins using protein microarrays. His laboratory built the first proteome chip (the entire set of proteins encoded by organism) for any organism.
Snyder has published over 120 manuscripts and is editor of a number of journals, including Functional and Integrative Genomics and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.
A graduate of the University of Rochester, Snyder earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine before joining the Yale faculty in 1986 as an assistant professor of biology. He became a tenured associate professor in 1990 and began a joint appointment in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1992. He became a full professor in 1997 and was appointed chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1998.
Snyder's honors include a United Scleroderma Foundation Award, a Pew Scholar Award, a Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship and a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award.
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