Tabea Elsener
@tabeaelsener.bsky.social
DPhil candidate at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. I love chasing resistance plasmids through the gonococcal population, reading old research papers and making microbiology experiments edible with sourdough baking =)
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Origin, evolution, and success of pbla, the gonococcal beta-lactamase plasmid, and implications for public health
Author summary Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a threat to sexual and reproductive health. With no available vaccine against gonococcal disease, control of infection depends on having effective antimicrobial...
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Very happy to see the second paper of my PhD now published in PLOS Pathogens!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
On Friday, I passed my PhD viva with no corrections. I can't believe it has already been 4 years at @dunnschool.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk ! What an amazing time it has been!
A huge thank you to my supervisor Prof Christoph Tang who has supported me throughout my PhD journey!
A huge thank you to my supervisor Prof Christoph Tang who has supported me throughout my PhD journey!
September 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
On Friday, I passed my PhD viva with no corrections. I can't believe it has already been 4 years at @dunnschool.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk ! What an amazing time it has been!
A huge thank you to my supervisor Prof Christoph Tang who has supported me throughout my PhD journey!
A huge thank you to my supervisor Prof Christoph Tang who has supported me throughout my PhD journey!
Reposted by Tabea Elsener
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
July 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Reposted by Tabea Elsener
🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!!
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Universal rules govern plasmid copy number - Nature Communications
Plasmids exhibit a broad range of sizes and copies per cell, and these two parameters appear to be negatively correlated. Here, Ramiro-Martínez et al. analyse the copy number of thousands of diverse b...
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July 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!!
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species,
stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very happy to see the second paper of my PhD now published in PLOS Pathogens!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Origin, evolution, and success of pbla, the gonococcal beta-lactamase plasmid, and implications for public health
Author summary Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a threat to sexual and reproductive health. With no available vaccine against gonococcal disease, control of infection depends on having effective antimicrobial...
dx.plos.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Very happy to see the second paper of my PhD now published in PLOS Pathogens!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Reposted by Tabea Elsener
"Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae" Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Beautiful live cell imaging and genetics work led by Adi Bandekar and with @fleshball.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae" Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Beautiful live cell imaging and genetics work led by Adi Bandekar and with @fleshball.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Tabea Elsener
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March 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Only two weeks left to register for #Microbio25! Join us for four days of scientific symposia, workshops, fora, Prize Lectures and much more! The deadline is 24 March at 12:00 GMT. Secure your spot, register now - microb.io/AC25Registra... #Microbio25
It started with a passionate discussion about #GenderEquality in science on a trainride and suddendly, we have been running panel discussions for over a year. In our last panel, I discussed with Dessislava Veltcha, Sally Cowley and Mathew Stracy how to navigate different career paths.
February 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It started with a passionate discussion about #GenderEquality in science on a trainride and suddendly, we have been running panel discussions for over a year. In our last panel, I discussed with Dessislava Veltcha, Sally Cowley and Mathew Stracy how to navigate different career paths.
A hitchhiker’s guide to the gonococcal population: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The origin and evolution of the gonococcal beta-lactamase plasmid, and implications for public health
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a leading cause of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and a priority AMR pathogen. Two narrow host range plasmids, p bla and pConj, have contributed to ending penicillin and...
biorxiv.org
January 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A hitchhiker’s guide to the gonococcal population: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...