Tabea Elsener
Postdoc in the Rocha Lab at Institut Pasteur. I love anything moving within and between bacterial genomes, reading old research papers and making microbiology experiments edible with sourdough baking =)
- Reposted by Tabea ElsenerBacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae carries an unusually large number of restriction–modification systems (up to 16!), many of which are phase-variable. How does this affect plasmid transmission in gonococci? doi.org/10.64898/202...
- My favourite - the NlaIV system, which can vary its specificity subunit to produce epigenetically heterogeneous populations that present variable bottlenecks to within-species plasmid transmission🤯
- 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!
- I am already excited for my next scientific adventure 🌟 @pasteur.fr @epcrocha.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tabea ElsenerI'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
- 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...
- Very happy to see the second paper of my PhD now published in PLOS Pathogens! 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...
- Reposted by Tabea ElsenerOnly 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
