Elsa Hansen
Assistant Research Professor - Read Lab
Research Summary
Evolution, transmission and management of drug-resistance. Improving treatment of infectious disease and cancer using mathematical models and optimal control theory.
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Therapeutics Neoplasms Cells Daptomycin Drugs Pharmaceutical Preparations Cancer Anti Bacterial Agents Parasites Drug Resistance Bacteria Ecology Pathogens Malaria Enterococcus Faecium Vancomycin Population Blood Drug Therapy Erythrocytes Tumor Cell Tumors Antibiotics Plasmodium FalciparumMost Recent Papers
Fighting microbial pathogens by integrating host ecosystem interactions and evolution
Alita R Burmeister, Elsa Hansen, Jessica J Cunningham, E Hesper Rego, Paul E Turner, Joshua S Weitz, Michael E Hochberg, 2020, BioEssays on p. e2000272
Daptomycin treatment impacts resistance in off-target populations of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Clare L. Kinnear, Elsa Hansen, Valerie J. Morley, Kevin C. Tracy, Meghan Forstchen, Andrew F. Read, Robert J. Woods, 2020, PLoS Biology
Daptomycin treatment impacts resistance in off-target populations of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Clare L Kinnear, Elsa Hansen, Valerie J Morley, Kevin C Tracy, Meghan Forstchen, Andrew F Read, Robert J Woods, 2020, PLoS Biology on p. e3000987
Modifying adaptive therapy to enhance competitive suppression
Elsa Hansen, Andrew F. Read, 2020, Cancers on p. 1-13
An adjunctive therapy administered with an antibiotic prevents enrichment of antibiotic-resistant clones of a colonizing opportunistic pathogen
Valerie J. Morley, Clare L. Kinnear, Derek G. Sim, Samantha N. Olson, Lindsey M. Jackson, Elsa Hansen, Grace A. Usher, Scott A. Showalter, Manjunath P. Pai, Robert J. Woods, Andrew F. Read, 2020, eLife on p. 1-17
Cancer therapy: Attempt cure or manage drug resistance?
Elsa Hansen, Andrew F. Read, 2020, Evolutionary Applications on p. 1660-1672
Antibiotics can be used to contain drug-resistant bacteria by maintaining sufficiently large sensitive populations
Elsa Hansen, Jason Karslake, Robert J. Woods, Andrew F. Read, Kevin B. Wood, 2020, PLoS Biology
Accounting for red blood cell accessibility reveals distinct invasion strategies in Plasmodium falciparum strains
Francisco Y. Cai, Tiffany M. DeSimone, Elsa Hansen, Cameron V. Jennings, Amy K. Bei, Ambroise D. Ahouidi, Souleymane Mboup, Manoj T. Duraisingh, Caroline O. Buckee, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer
Antoine M. Dujon, Athena Aktipis, Catherine Alix-Panabières, Sarah R. Amend, Amy M. Boddy, Joel S. Brown, Jean Pascal Capp, James DeGregori, Paul Ewald, Robert Gatenby, Marco Gerlinger, Mathieu Giraudeau, Rodrigo K. Hamede, Elsa Hansen, Irina Kareva, Carlo C. Maley, Andriy Marusyk, Nicholas McGranahan, Michael J. Metzger, Aurora M. Nedelcu, Robert Noble, Leonard Nunney, Kenneth J. Pienta, Kornelia Polyak, Pascal Pujol, Andrew F. Read, Benjamin Roche, Susanne Sebens, Eric Solary, Kateřina Staňková, Holly Swain Ewald, Frédéric Thomas, Beata Ujvari, 2020, Evolutionary Applications
On the accuracy of drug-resistant cell population estimation from total cancer size measurements
Mahsa Doosthosseini, Elsa Hansen, Hosam K. Fathy, 2019, on p. 343-350
Most-Cited Papers
Optimal control of epidemics with limited resources
Elsa Katrina Hansen, Troy Day, 2011, Journal of Mathematical Biology on p. 423-451
Expansion of host cellular niche can drive adaptation of a zoonotic malaria parasite to humans
Caeul Lim, Elsa Hansen, Tiffany M. Desimone, Yovany Moreno, Klara Junker, Amy Bei, Carlo Brugnara, Caroline O. Buckee, Manoj T. Duraisingh, 2013, Nature Communications
Mobile phones and malaria
Caroline O. Buckee, Amy Wesolowski, Nathan N. Eagle, Elsa Hansen, Robert W. Snow, 2013, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease on p. 15-22
How to use a chemotherapeutic agent when resistance to it threatens the patient
Elsa Katrina Hansen, Robert J. Woods, Andrew Fraser Read, 2017, PLoS Biology
Optimal antiviral treatment strategies and the effects of resistance
Elsa Hansen, Troy Day, 2011, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 1082-1089
Modeling the human infectious reservoir for malaria control
Elsa Hansen, Caroline O. Buckee, 2013, Trends in Parasitology on p. 270-275
Antibiotics can be used to contain drug-resistant bacteria by maintaining sufficiently large sensitive populations
Elsa Hansen, Jason Karslake, Robert J. Woods, Andrew F. Read, Kevin B. Wood, 2020, PLoS Biology
Cancer therapy: Attempt cure or manage drug resistance?
Elsa Hansen, Andrew F. Read, 2020, Evolutionary Applications on p. 1660-1672
On the accuracy of drug-resistant cell population estimation from total cancer size measurements
Mahsa Doosthosseini, Elsa Hansen, Hosam K. Fathy, 2019, on p. 343-350
Modifying adaptive therapy to enhance competitive suppression
Elsa Hansen, Andrew F. Read, 2020, Cancers on p. 1-13