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Ruiting Lan

Dr Ruiting Lan

BscAgr (Jiangxi), PhD (Sydney)

Senior Lecturer

Room No:

301B

Office:

3rd flr, Biological Sciences BLDG

Phone:

9385 2095

Fax:

9385 1591

Email:

r.lan@unsw.edu.au
Teaching Responsibilities:

MICRO3081  Course Lecturer
MICRO3228  Course Lecturer
MICRO2011  Course Lecturer
MICRO3011  Course Lecturer
BINF1001  Course Lecturer
BINF2001  Course Lecturer

Research Description:

Molecular evolution and population structure of bacterial pathogens. Several human pathogens are studied. 1)Evolutionary relationships of E. coli including Shigella 2)Evolution of toxigenic V. cholerae clones and re-emergence of cholera 3)Molecular evolution and typing of Salmonella enterica 4)Evolutionary genomics: analyzing genome sequence data to understand the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial genomes 5)Bioinformatics: developing systems that facilitate handling large amount of data for evolutionary analysis and genome analysis. Evolutionary genomics of bacterial pathogens.

Selected Publications:

Lan, R., and P. R. Reeves. 2002. Pandemic spread of cholera: genetic diversity and relationships within the seventh pandemic clone of Vibrio cholerae determined by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism. J Clin Microbiol 40:172-181.

Hu, H., R. Lan, and P. R. Reeves. 2002. Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Reveals Phage-Type- Specific Markers and Potential for Microarray Typing. J Clin Microbiol 40:3406-3415.

Lan, R., and P. R. Reeves. 2001. When does a clone deserve a name: a perspective on bacterial species based on population genetics. Trends Microbiol 9:419-424.

Pupo, G. M., R. Lan, and P. R. Reeves. 2000. Multiple independent origins of Shigella clones of Escherichia coli and convergent evolution of many of their characteristics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:10567-10572.
Other Professional Activities:

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney; Member, American Society for Microbiology; Professional Member, Australian Society for Microbiology
 


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