Lori A.S. Snyder is Professor at Kingston University, having previously worked at the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham, and studied at Emory University and the College of William and Mary. Her research interests are in whole genome sequencing of bacteria and use of that data in experimental research. She teaches undergraduate and graduate microbiology, genomics, and molecular biology and supervises research students. Professor Snyder was awarded the W H Pierce Prize for contributions to applied microbiology by the Society of Applied Microbiology in 2013.