Dr. Jonathan Snow, Assistant Professor of Biology at Barnard College, has been working on the cellular and molecular causes of organismal disease since 1998. Dr. Snow received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. His graduate and postgraduate work focused on signal transduction, regulation of gene expression, and organismal stress responses in blood development of mammals. He subsequently became fascinated with the honey bee and changed his research focus to the study of these same biological processes in the honey bee, especially in light of the epidemic of colony collapse. After beginning this research while a visiting faculty member at Williams College in 2010-2012, he joined the Biology Department at Barnard College in 2012. He continues his avocation as a bee-keeper while teaching and maintaining an active research laboratory.
EDUCATION
2003-2009 Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Research Fellow, Hematology/Oncology
1997-2003 University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Ph.D. from Biomedical Sciences Program (April, 2003)
1992-1996 Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Bachelor of Arts, Major: Biology
EXPERIENCE
2021-present Barnard College, New York, NY
2012-2021 Barnard College, New York, NY
Assistant Professor of Biology
2010-2012 Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
2009-2010 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Pediatrics, Research Faculty in Dr. Stuart Orkin’s laboratory
2003-2009 Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Research Fellow in Dr. Stuart Orkin’s laboratory
(Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow 2005-2008)
1998-2003 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Graduate student in Dr. Mark Goldsmith’s laboratory studying the role of the STAT family of transcription factors in hematolymphoid development in vivo
1995-1996 Williams College Williamstown, MA
Senior Thesis student in Dr. Daniel Lynch’s laboratory studying the enzyme biochemistry of sphingolipid metabolism in plant cells
HONORS
2022 Tow Professorship for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners
2018 Academic Advisor of Distinction – Barnard Student Government Association
2017 Emily Gregory Award – Student nominated award honors an outstanding faculty member for excellence in teaching and for devotion and service to students
2017 Tow Award for Innovative and Outstanding Pedagogy
GRANTS
2023 National Science Foundation – OSIB:RUI
2023 Project ApisM
2022 Project ApisM
2021 National Science Foundation – EAGER
2019 United State Department of Agriculture – Exploratory
2019 California State Beekeeping Association
2018 Presidential Research Award (Barnard)
2017 Project ApisM
2017 Special Assistant Professor Leave Supplemental Grant (Barnard)
2016 North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
2015 National Honey Board
2005 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellowship
2005 American Cancer Society Fellowship, declined
2001 Travel Award for the 43rd Meeting of the American Society of Hematology
2001 Dean’s Health Sciences Fellowship, UCSF
1997 Honorable Mention, NSF Fellowship