Maria Anisimova

Dr. Anisimova is currently Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at ETH Zurich.She has received MSc, PhD degrees from University College London, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She is specialized in Molecular Evolution, Genome Evolution, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, computational genomics and modeling molecular evolution.

Her publications are as follows:
Anisimova, M., J. P. Bielawski, and Z. Yang 2001. Accuracy and power of the likelihood ratio test to detect adaptive molecular evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:1585-1592.
Anisimova, M. and O. Gascuel. 2006. Approximate likelihood ratio test for branches: a fast, accurate and powerful alternative. Syst. Biol. 55(4):539-552.
Anisimova, M. and C. Kosiol 2009. Investigating protein-coding sequence evolution with probabilistic codon substitution models. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26(2):255-271.
Remigi P., M. Anisimova, A. Guidot, S. Genin and N. Peeters. 2011. Functional diversification of the GALA type-three effector family contributes to Ralstonia solanacearum adaptation on several plant hosts. New Phytologist 192: 976?987.
Anisimova, M., M. Gil, JF. Dufayard, C. Dessimoz and O. Gascuel 2011. Survey of branch support methods demonstrates accuracy, power, and robustness of fast likelihood-based approximation schemes. Syst Biol 60:685?699.
Schaper, E., A.V. Kajava, A. Hauser, and M. Anisimova 2012. Repeat or not repeat? – Statistical validation of tandem repeat prediction in genomic sequences Nucl. Acids Res. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks726.