Research Interests: Metabolomics, Computational analysis and Software development, Multi-Omics and Integrative analysis. 

Research interests: focuses on the human gut microbiome,  involved in multiple multiomic projects investigating how physiological systems through the human body interact across different lifestyles and health states. Research involving wet and dry lab aspects of multiomics analyses, and two coronavirus research projects including handling of positive SARS-COV-2 samples.

Research Interests: Dr. Varuna Chander is a postdoctoral fellow in the Snyder lab investigating the genomic basis of human diseases, both rare and common using multi-omics and machine learning approaches.
  More Dr. Chander received her PhD in Genetics and Genomics from the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Gibbs. As a NLM fellow of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Dr. Chander led projects investigating the molecular causes of rare diseases and also the relationship between somatic mosaicism in blood and cardiovascular disease risk. Alongside, she also led collaborative projects employing the role of structural variation in genetic diseases. Prior to doctoral studies, she gained experience in early-stage NGS research and product development in companies spanning big pharma to start-ups in Boston and San Diego.

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Research Interests: Nutrition, Microbiome, Epigenome, Multi-omics, Fertility, Precision Medicine

Research interests: Dr. Ariel Ganz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Snyder Lab studying effective strategies for mental health and thriving. Her current research focus is on the biology of depression and depression recovery, as well identifying effective strategies to improve mental and physical well-being. More  Dr. Ganz received her PhD in Molecular Nutrition with a focus on Precision Health, nutrigenetics, and vitamin metabolism from Cornell University under the mentorship of Dr. Marie Caudill and Dr. Patrick Stover. 

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Research interest:  Cancer immunotherapy.

Research Interests: Dr. Tuhin Guha is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Snyder lab, where he is using highly multiplexed imaging modalities, such as CODEX and Nanostring to understand the precancer/tumor microenvironment from Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)  More patient samples. His doctoral work involved biochemical characterization of DNA cutting enzymes (Meganuclease) and designing ‘on/off’ switch for temporal regulation of ‘molecular scissors’ for efficient genome editing. Previous postdoctoral training involved modified CRISPR-Cas system for increasing the efficiency of gene editing in mammalian cells/Xenopus embryos and alternative gene therapy approach to treat various muscle disorders using the diseased mouse models.

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Research Interests: Dr. Hirotaka Ieki is a physician-scientist specializing in cardiovascular disease. He has completed an internal medicine residency and is a board-certified cardiologist with 10 years of clinical experience in Japan. His research focuses on genomics in cardiovascular disease and machine learning.
  More Dr. Ieki joined Snyder lab in 2023. His project is realizing precision medicine in heart disease by combining genome, omics, and wearable big data using statistical and machine learning techniques.

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Research interests: Linda  is interested in how immune functions work as a system in response to vaccination/infection. Her current study explores how cardiorespiratory fitness affects immune cell populations, T cell and antibody repertoire diversity, and humoral immune responses post-influenza vaccination.

Research interest:  Gut microbiome in cardiovascular disease.

Research interests: Pardis Miri, PhD, is focused on building technology to facilitate mental well being..
  More With a PhD in computer science and years of training in area of affective science (under the supervision of Professor James J. Gross), Pardis has assembled a unique team (see http://wehab.stanford.edu) to not only run clinical studies to evaluate their efficacy in changing emotion, mood, and stress but also build product-ready technology. Pardis is the principal investigator of a large multi-disciplinary project (FAR) to design, build, and evaluate a wearable system tailored to the needs of children with emotion dysregulation, especially children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. FAR aims to empower them to manage their problem behaviors in a more adaptive way. The FAR project involves collaborations between the departments of Computer Science, Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Pardis is being advised by Professors Micheal Snyder in the Genetics Department at Stanford University School of Medicine, Professor Keith Marzullo at the University of Maryland iSchool, whose research is on distributed systems, and by Professor James Gross, whose research underlies much of what we now know about emotion regulation. She is also working with Professor Antonio Hardan of the Stanford School of Medicine, whose research is on children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Longitudinal Data, Multi-Omics, Wearables Sensors, Space Biology, Systems Biology.

Bio: Tejaswini’s research interests lie at the intersection of biomedical research,  More precision medicine, and bioinformatics.  She previously led the Snyder lab arm of the NASA Twins Study, and currently leads the iPOP, hPOP and COVID-19 Wearables studies within the lab. Her work revolves around using longitudinal biomedical data (omics and wearables) to understand physiological variation across individuals, to establish personal healthy molecular profiles, to study individual metabolic dysregulation patterns, and to identify changes associated with lifestyle, illness, and space travel (NASA Twins Study), with the ultimate goal of predicting diseases early and using personalized medicine to manage health.

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