
Senior Director,
Operations & Genomics
Jorge Marques Signes, PhD
Dr. Jorge Marques Signes is the Senior Director of Operations and Genomics…
Jorge Marques Signes, PhD
Senior Director, Operations and Genomics, DHMRI
Dr. Jorge Marques Signes is the Senior Director of Operations and Genomics at DHMRI. Dr. Marques Signes works with several genomic platforms (Illumina, PacBio, 10X Genomics, nanoString) to elucidate diverse genomic questions in the fields of health and nutrition, cancer and agrotechnology.
Jorge has served as genomics scientist focused on designing, executing and analyzing projects in collaboration with different customers. Projects were designed to address the microbiome functional characterization after diet interventions, to develop cancer molecular diagnostic based in gene expression modelling, to assemble complex genomes with whole genome sequencing and transcriptomics, or to characterize the epigenetics control of gene expression associated with cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Marques has been successful in the study of plant-microbe interaction. Dr. Marques Signes study genomic instability as a mechanism for transcription control and the role of different DNA repair machinery proteins such as RAD51, BRCA2, RAD17 or ATR. Jorge has published in high impact scientific journals including: Nature, Nature Communications, Cell Host and Microbe and Molecular Cell.

Chief Science Officer
Nick Gillitt, PhD
Dr. Nick Gillett oversees the scientific direction of DHMRI and seeks to…
Nick Gillett, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, DHMRI
Nick oversees the scientific direction of DHMRI and seeks to provide researchers with the cutting-edge research tools capable of uncovering the underlying biology associated with nutrition, health and agriculture.
In his previous role as Vice President of Nutrition Research for Dole Food Company he ran the Dole Nutrition Institute and was responsible for designing and implementing collaborative research agreements with NCRC’s academic partners to study the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables on a variety of aspects relating to human health. In addition, he managed all Doles consumer education efforts including the newsletter, brochures, DNI website and social media.
Nicholas graduated from the UK’s Newcastle Polytechnic in 1990 with a first-class honours degree in Applied Chemistry. He received his Physical/Inorganic Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, under the supervision of Dr. D.M. Davies. His post-doctoral work in physical organic chemistry was carried out under Prof. C.A. Bunton at the University of California Santa Barbara. Nicholas has co-authored over 50 papers in pier reviewed scientific journals.