Dr. Mungall was a founding member of the Human Genome Sequencing Group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (formerly the Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK), where he led efforts to map and sequence human chromosome 6. He earned his PhD in 2008 from the Open University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, focusing on the evolution and gene regulation of genomic imprinting.
Dr. Mungall is currently a Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader of the Biospecimen and Library Cores at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) in Vancouver. His teams provide specialized services for the collection, processing, quality control, storage, and distribution of biological samples—including nucleic acids, blood, tissues, and cells—for both clinical and research 'omics' applications. The Library Core also performs nucleic acid extractions from fresh, frozen, and archival biospecimens, and prepares a wide range of sequencing libraries for short- and long-read platforms.
