Pedro Miguel Almeida Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

• Assessment, design, and implementation of genetic tests, clinical reports and analytic algorithms, in the areas of pharmacogenomics and nutrigenomics;
• Implementation of a clinical report for cancer therapy, including the prioritization of variants to determine those potentially implicated and/or with clinical impact in a patient's phenotype;
• Development of a Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) pipeline for variant calling of germline variations, using data from exome and amplicon sequencing;
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) into personalised health reports accurately and efficiently;
• Maintain and transfer PRS algorithms and code to support the launch of new reports, including implementing new health risk calculations based on genetic data;
• Liaison and monitoring of customers and employees on issues related with genetics.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Evolutionary genomics of young sex-chromosomes in the basket willow (plant) and guppy (vertebrate).
• Generation, processing and analyses of Next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from multiple sequencing technologies, including Illumina short-reads, Pacific Biosciences long-reads and 10x Genomics linked-reads;
• Genome assembly and annotation;
• Design of computational approaches for the detection of sex-linked variation using phased data;
• Generation and analysis of sex-specific k-mers;
• Forward-time population genomics simulations;

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Application of molecular methods to study the evolutionary ecology of wild populations of yeasts.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Characterization of membrane proteins with alternative NADH dehydrogenase activity (type II).

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Molecular examination of symbiotic bacteria in cicadas from their tissues.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biology, Specialization In Microbiology

"Microbe Domestication and the Identification of the Wild Genetic Stock of Wine Yeasts." Application of evolutionary genomic methods to.

Master’S Degree, Applied Microbiology, 1St Grade

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology, Molecular Biology And Genetics, 2.1 Grade

Technological Specialization (Ec Level Iv), Microbiology, 17/20