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	Dr Mark Tanaka
	BSc(Hons) PhD
	Senior Lecturer
	Room No:	231B
	Office:	Floor 2, Biological Sciences Bldg
	Phone:	9385 2038
	Fax:	9385 1483
	Email:	m.tanaka@unsw.edu.au

For further details see:

http://www.emi.unsw.edu.au/

Teaching Responsibilities:

BABS1201 Course Lecturer, Co-coordinator

BINF1001 Course Lecturer
BINF2001 Course Lecturer
BINF3001 Course Lecturer
BIOC2291 Course Lecturer
BIOC2021/BIOC2621 Course Lecturer
BIOC3291 Course Lecturer, Co-coordinator
BIOC3151 Course Lecturer
MICR3081 Course Lecturer

Research Description:

Quantitative analysis of host-pathogen interactions. In particular:

Studying evolutionary forces influencing the spread of pathogens
Developing quantitative methods for molecular epidmiology

Selected Publications:

Regoes RR, Antia R, Crotty S and Tanaka MM (2005) Optimal replication of poliovirus within cells. Am. Nat. 165(3):364-373.

Tanaka MM and Francis AR (2005) Methods of quantifying and visualising outbreaks of tuberculosis using genotypic information. Infect. Genet. Evol. 5(1):35-43.

Tanaka MM, Rosenberg NA and Small PM (2004) The control of copy number of IS6110 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(12):2195-2201.

Tanaka MM, Bergstrom, CT and Levin, BR (2003) The evolution of mutator genes in bacterial populations: The roles of environmental change and timing. Genetics 164(3):843-854.

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