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Anouk Willemsen

Ass.-Prof. Dr.

Member of the Young Academy since 2023

  • Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS), University of Vienna

Anouk Willemsen

Orcid-ID:

0000-0002-8511-3244

Research Areas:

  • Biology
  • Microbiology
  • Evolutionary research
  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
  • European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)

Selected Prizes:

  • ERC Starting Grant
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship 2019
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship 2016
  • Genome Biology and Evolution Best Graduate Student Paper Award 2017
  • Outstanding Doctorate Award

Selected Publications:

  • Arthofer P, Delafont V, Willemsen A, Panhölz F, and Horn M. Defensive symbiosis against giant viruses in amoebae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (36): e2205856119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205856119.
  • Borveto F, Bravo IG and Willemsen A. Papillomaviruses infecting cetaceans exhibitsigns of genome adaptation following a recombination event. Virus Evolution, 6 (1): veaa038. https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa038.
  • Willemsen A, and Zwart MP. On the stability of sequences inserted into viral genomes. Virus Evolution, 5 (2): vez045. https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/vez045.
  • Willemsen A, Félez-Sánchez M, and Bravo IG. Genome plasticity in papillomaviruses and de novo emergence of E5 oncogenes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11 (6): 1602–1617. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz095.
  • Willemsen A and Bravo IG. Origin and evolution of papillomavirus (onco) genes and genomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374 (1773): 20180303. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0303.