Innovator Profile

Dr. Snow received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from MIT in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford University in 2006. As a Howard Hughes fellow at Stanford, Dr. Snow studied the biophysics of protein folding using distributed computing. Before arriving at CSU, Dr. Snow was a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow and a KAUST Research Fellow at Caltech in Frances Arnold’s laboratory. At CSU, Dr. Snow leads a research group focus on computer-guided molecular engineering. Most projects fall into two categories. 1) The design and engineering of individual proteins or enzymes. 2) The design and engineering of crystalline assemblies. Diverse application areas of interest include structural biology, catalysis, information storage, biosensors, biomaterials for therapeutic delivery, intracellular imaging, and novel affinity reagents. Methods of particular interest include directed evolution, macromolecular crystallography, protein structure prediction, and new algorithms for reliable computational protein engineering.