Professor Snyder’s research focuses on two main areas: combating antibiotic-resistant infections and bacterial genetics and genomics. She and her research team have developed novel antimicrobials to stop infant blindness from multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections. Prof. Snyder also uses bacterial genome sequence data to uncover information about pathogens, informing our laboratory investigations. In 2013, Professor Snyder 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. She was twice elected to the Prokaryotic Division committee of the Microbiology Society and served on the Editorial Boards of the journals Microorganisms (MDPI) and Microbial Genomics (Microbiology Society). In April 2020, her textbook Bacterial Genetics and Genomics was published, with a second edition published in 2024.