Maria Anisimova

Prof. Dr. Maria Anisimova is a Professor at the Institute of Computational Life Sciences within the ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management. Her research focuses on computational methods in evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. Key areas include tandem repeat analysis, ancestral sequence reconstruction, and cancer genomics. She leads multiple projects on colorectal cancer mechanisms, computational drug discovery, and evolutionary biology.

Her work integrates statistical models and algorithms to address challenges in genome analysis, including indel evolution, phylogenetics, and natural language-based database querying. Notable contributions include tools like ARPIP, ProPIP, and TRAL, advancing sequence alignment and tandem repeat detection. She also explores the role of protein intrinsic disorder and tandem repeats in cancer biology.

Prof. Anisimova’s interdisciplinary approach spans bioinformatics, computational biology, and clinical applications, with publications in journals like *Nature*, *Genome Biology*, and *Molecular Biology and Evolution*. She has authored a textbook on evolutionary genomics and contributed to major conferences and workshops in the field.