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Nigel Mouncey
Director
DOE Joint Genome Institute
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Dr. Mouncey serves as the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, a role he has held since March 2017. Dr. Mouncey is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the JGI, a National User Facility, that serves more than 2500 users with large-scale and advanced genomics capabilities. He also leads JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Science Program that weaves together sequencing, genome mining, synthetic biology and metabolomics to discover novel secondary metabolites, their biosynthetic pathways and functional characterization. Prior to joining JGI, Dr. Mouncey served for almost 20 years in a variety of R&D leadership roles in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector working for Roche Vitamins, DSM and Dow Agrosciences. During his time in industry, he directed R&D teams that focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop traits. Dr. Mouncey also served as President of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 2022-2023. In 2024, he was elected as both a AAAS Fellow and a SIMB Fellow. Dr. Mouncey has 42 peer-reviewed articles and 13 granted patents.
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