Michael Paul Snyder is an American genomicist, professor, and chair of genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
[1][9] His research at Yale included work on chromosome segregation and cell polarity, leading to the identification of a number of related genes.
[10][11] In 2009, Snyder joined Stanford University, where he chaired the genetics department and directed the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine.
[14] He led the National Institutes of Health's Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)'s production center for mapping regulatory regions of the human genome.
Snyder's laboratory initially focused on studying the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a eukaryote model organism commonly used in genetics and molecular biology.