| Mark Pallen has been Professor of Microbial
Genomics at Birmingham since July 2001, and is founder member of the Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics Unit. Although administratively linked the Medical School, his office and laboratory accommodation is housed within the School of Biosciences and Centre for Systems Biology.
Mark is dually qualified as a scientist (PhD) and as a medically
qualified clinical bacteriologist (MBBS, MRCPath), and has
Research-Council funding for both bioinformatics and laboratory-based
molecular bacteriology projects. His interests focus on bacterial
pathogenesis and the exploitation of sequence data, particularly
genome sequence data. For more information on Mark's research interests, see his Research Group's web page. Mark is author of The Rough Guide to Evolution, a popular and wide-ranging introduction to Charles Darwin, the theory of evolution and their ramifications in science and society. He maintains a blog, also entitled The Rough Guide to Evolution, to accompany the book.
Contact Details
Location: Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham, BIRMINGHAM, B15
2TT
Tel: 0121 414 7163
E-mail: m.pallen@bham.ac.uk
Facebook: meet me here
Selected Publications
Recent Research Publications via PubMed
Rough Guide to Evolution (Book): available now from amazon.co.uk
Rough Guide to Evolution (Blog)
Bacterial Pathogenomics (Book)
Bacterial Pathogenomics (review article in Nature).
Publications on flagellar evolution
SciArt Projects
Darwin Day in Birmingham
Speckled Monster (collaboration with Birmingham Rep and ThinkTank on smallpox eradication)
Origin of Species in Dub, a celebration of Darwin's masterpiece realised through the medium of reggae music.
Adviser to Shrewsbury theatre/Pentbus project to create new play on the young Darwin
Evolving Words project to engage young people in Darwin-related poetry during bicentenary year
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October 2005, celebrating our PNAS paper
Mark Pallen (left) with Scott Beatson
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