Alexandre Almeida
Principal Investigator (MRC Career Development Fellow)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Almeida is a genomics and bioinformatics researcher with 10+ years of experience translating large-scale computational analyses into discoveries with direct human-health relevance. Trained at Institut Pasteur and now an MRC Career Development Fellow leading an independent team at the University of Cambridge, he pioneered expansive metagenomic catalogs that tripled known gut bacterial species and revealed hundreds of thousands of viral and bacterial genomes. His work blends comparative genomics, metagenomics and experimental follow-up to link microbial genomic variation to host adaptation, virulence and disease. Alexandre has a track record of building community resources and pipelines at EMBL-EBI that underpin global microbiome research. He combines rigorous wet-lab origins in microbiology with scalable computational methods, and his group focuses on the “hidden” uncultured microbiome now accessible through genome-resolved metagenomics.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology at Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityMaster's Degree, Forensic Genetics, 18 out of 20, Master's Degree, Forensic Genetics, 18 out of 20 at Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
genome10
microbiology10
ncbi10
minhash10
genome-analysis10
microbiome10
bacteria10
metagenomics10
taxonomy9
genomes9
bioinformatics9
nomenclature9
genomics9
illumina9
pipeline8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexmsalmeida/genofan
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
microfundiv-lab/microfundiv-lab.github.io
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 83 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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