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
Parasites Blood Erythrocytes Malaria Zoonoses Expansion Antiviral Agents Vaccination Plasmodium Knowlesi Planning Disease Outbreaks Infectious Diseases Primates Drug Therapy Effect Resources Optimal Control Pandemic Rate Isolation Policy Infection Model Cells Time Optimal ControlMost Recent Papers
An adjunctive therapy administered with an antibiotic prevents enrichment of antibiotic-resistance clones of a colonizing opportunistic pathogen
Valerie Morley, Clare Kinnear, Derek Sim, Samantha Olsen, Lindsey Jackson, Elsa Hansen, Grace Usher, Scott Showalter, Manjunath Pai, Robert Woods, Andrew Read, 2020, eLife
Daptomycin treatment impacts resistance in off-target populations of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Clare Kinnear, Elsa Hansen, Valerie Morley, Kevin Tracy, Meghan Forstchen, Andrew Read, Robert Woods, 2020, PLoS Biology
Modifying adaptive therapy to enhance competitive suppression
Elsa Hansen, Andrew Read, 2020, Cancers
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
Modeling the human infectious reservoir for malaria control: does heterogeneity matter?
2013, Trends in Parasitology
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: modeling human and parasite travel
2013, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Optimal antiviral treatment: A geometric picture
2011, Canadian Applied Math Quarterly Focus Issue on Pandemic Modeling
Most-Cited Papers
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
Optimal control of epidemics with limited resources
Elsa Katrina Hansen, Troy Day, 2011, Journal of Mathematical Biology on p. 423-451
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
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
Optimal antiviral treatment: A geometric picture
2011, Canadian Applied Math Quarterly Focus Issue on Pandemic Modeling
Daptomycin treatment impacts resistance in off-target populations of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Clare Kinnear, Elsa Hansen, Valerie Morley, Kevin Tracy, Meghan Forstchen, Andrew Read, Robert Woods, 2020, PLoS Biology
An adjunctive therapy administered with an antibiotic prevents enrichment of antibiotic-resistance clones of a colonizing opportunistic pathogen
Valerie Morley, Clare Kinnear, Derek Sim, Samantha Olsen, Lindsey Jackson, Elsa Hansen, Grace Usher, Scott Showalter, Manjunath Pai, Robert Woods, Andrew Read, 2020, eLife
Modeling the human infectious reservoir for malaria control: does heterogeneity matter?
2013, Trends in Parasitology