Professor Lori Snyder

About

I am involved in educating students from the foundation year, to MSc programmes, to PhDs. In addition, I am active in outreach activities, including Lab in a Lorry visits, offering work experience to sixth form students, and participating in public engagement events, including making on-line content (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waaC_T2z0-I) (https://bacterialgeneticsbiology.science.blog/). My research focuses on two main areas: combating antibiotic resistant infections and bacterial genetics and genomics. I have developed, with my research team, novel antimicrobials to stop infant blindness from multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. This work was featured in Wired (www.wired.co.uk/article/fight-against-super-gonorrhoea), News Medical (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201009/Simple-eye-drop-can-treat-antibiotic-resistant-bacterial-infection.aspx), and discussed on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQUl5-kC1OQ). I also use bacterial genome sequence data to uncover information about pathogens, informing our laboratory investigations. This work was featured in a YouTube interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ttuJ6l1hI).

In April 2020, my textbook Bacterial Genetics and Genomics was published (https://www.routledge.com/Bacterial-Genetics-and-Genomics/Snyder/p/book/9780815345695).

I began doing genomic analyses and investigating mechanisms of antibiotic resistance during my PhD at Emory University, USA, with Prof. Bill Shafer, where I investigated Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis. Work on these species continued during my post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford. As a post-doc at the University of Birmingham, I worked as a bioinformatician with Prof. Mark Pallen and Prof. Nick Loman.

In 2013, I was awarded the W H Pierce Prize from the Society for Applied Microbiology in recognition of my substantial contributions to the science of applied microbiology. I have been twice elected to the Prokaryotic Division committee of the Microbiology Society, serve on the Editorial Boards of the journals Microorganisms (MDPI) and Microbial Genomics (Microbiology Society). Funding for my research has been awarded by Sparks, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Society for Applied Microbiology, and the Microbiology Society, as well as an NIH award on which I am a collaborator.

Academic responsibilities

Professor

Qualifications

  • PhD. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Emory University, 2001
  • MA in Biology, The College of William and Mary, 1995
  • BS in Biology, The College of William and Mary, 1993
  • Senior Fellow HEA, 2015

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Research

Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact

Leadership and management

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