Nigel J. Mouncey
Director, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Building: 310 (JGI)
Phone: (510) 486-5327
NMouncey@lbl.gov
https://jgi.doe.gov/about-us/organization/strategic-management/nigel-mouncey/
Divisions
Secondary Affiliation:
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
- Molecular EcoSystems Biology
Biography
Nigel Mouncey joined us on March 15, 2017 as the Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Hailing from England, Mouncey earned his Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology with honors from the University of Glasgow and received his Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry at the University of Sussex. He completed post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School and the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Mouncey spent 10 years at Roche Vitamins in New Jersey and DSM Nutritional Products in Switzerland before joining Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has a demonstrated strong track record in microbiology and management, in both the academic and industry sectors.
Recent Publications
Related News
New Strategic Plan: JGI’s Next 5 Years
The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Innovating Genomics to Serve the Changing Planet. Aside from aligning the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a bioeconomy, it lays out how users and the global research community will bridge fundamental knowledge gaps to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
University of Duisburg-Essen Delegation Explores Collaborative Opportunities with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Building on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between UDE and Berkeley Lab researchers, a kick-off meeting focused on future collaborations in the fields of genomics, structural biology, bioimaging, and water research.
JGI Adds Actinobacteria Chapter in the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea
In Cell Genomics, an international consortium led by researchers at the Joint Genome Institute team generated 824 new Actinobacteria genomes, which were were combined with nearly 5,000 publicly available ones and 1,100 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from sequenced environmental samples in a previous study.
