Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida

Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian Fisheries College, part of UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on bacteriophages, giant viruses, and microbial interactions in mucosal and marine environments.

• Key research areas: Phage therapy, CRISPR-Cas systems, mucosal immunity, marine bioprospecting

His work explores how mucosal environments influence phage-bacteria dynamics and CRISPR defense mechanisms. Recent studies investigate Arctic microbial ecosystems and their potential for antimicrobial discovery. Almeida's lab isolates and characterizes novel phages and giant viruses from cold marine environments.

Publication trends emphasize Phage-bacteria coevolution, Virus-protist interactions, and marine bioprospecting. His scientific contributions include developing comparative genomics tools like CALANGO and studying phage adhesion mechanisms.

Almeida leads the Marine Bioprospecting research group, focusing on virus-host interactions in extreme environments. His team investigates antimicrobial production during viral infections and environmental persistence of phages.