Nigel J. Mouncey

Director, DOE Joint Genome Institute

Secondary Affiliation: Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

Molecular EcoSystems Biology

Building: 310 (JGI) Phone: (510) 486-5327
NMouncey@lbl.gov
https://jgi.doe.gov/about-us/organization/strategic-management/nigel-mouncey/

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New Strategic Plan: JGI’s Next 5 Years

May 3, 2024

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.

JGI Adds Actinobacteria Chapter in the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea

November 11, 2022

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.

JGI Streamlines Regulon Identification in Bacteria

July 18, 2022

Using RIViT-seq technology, which combines an in vitro transcription assay with RNA sequencing, researchers identified the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces coelicolor. The work, published in Nature Communications, was conducted by Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Director Nigel Mouncey and research scientist Hiroshi Otani. Both are members of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolite Science Program, which Mouncey leads. Transcription factors control when and how genes are turned on or off, making transcriptional regulation critical as it ensures those genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are expressed when their functions are needed. Learn more on the JGI website.

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