Mark Pallen
Goodbye and thank you to Birmingham!
Well, today is my last working day at the University of Birmingham, before I set off after Easter for a new position at the University of Warwick as Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of a new Division of Microbiology and Infection in Warwick Medical School. I have been at the University of Birmingham since [...]
Benchtop Sequencer Comparison paper
In case you haven’t seen our recent paper, you can download the paper here (subscription required): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2198 Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms Nature Biotechnology advance online publication published online 22 April 2012 Nicholas J Loman, Raju V Misra, Timothy J Dallman, Chrystala Constantinidou, Saheer E Gharbia, John Wain & Mark J Pallen Here is a press [...]
2011: Review of a Remarkable Year
2011 has been a remarkable year for me, during which I have travelled widely, met lots of interesting people, recruited substantial grant funding and had a paper published in the journal with the highest impact factor of them all! So, at the risk of producing one of those cheesy round-Robin letters that get stuffed in [...]
Live Tweets from Applying Advanced Molecular Techniques to Healthcare Infection Days 1-2
Here is a crude file dump of my tweets from this Wellcome Trust retreat. You will have to read them in reverse order and ignore the extraneous material, but I thought it was worth getting them archived and available here, together with relevant links second attempt to upload slide illustrating #genomicfundamentalism featuring Lord [...]
Great Read at Birmingham: Captain Kirkup and Chris Stringer
AV material associated with this week’s Great Read at Birmingham events. Captain Kirkup on Evolution and Game Theory Video of the talk and subsequent Q&A : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15gxMlQQ6AA Slides to go with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTk9_DlOpcQ (Open these in a separate window as they will need to be manually paused and progressed forward: sorry no synchronised slidecast available) [...]
Open Education and Bio380 lecture on Neanderthals
This academic year I have set myself the goal of making all my lecture available for all, in the public domain, via YouTube and maybe also Slideshare. The technical side of doing this is fairly straightforward (capture a screen movie via QuickTime), but the major hassle is ensuring and documenting permissions for all images. In [...]
Great Read at Birmingham
Here are a few links to posts (and via them to videos) from the Rough Guide to Evolution blog relevant to the Great Read at Birmingham initiative. They will be of interest to anyone generally interested in evolution (which should include most biologists!) http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2011/09/live-tweets-from-great-read-at.html http://www.youtube.com/user/pallenm#p/u/9/0bIgGUUPkyM http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2011/09/ken-miller-at-opening-great-read-at.html http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2011/09/adam-tickell-on-thomas-henry-huxley-at.html http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2011/09/visiting-down-house-with-randal-keynes.html http://roughguidetoevolution.blogspot.com/2011/09/darwins-shrewsbury.html
Vorsprung durch Technik: talk at Prokagenomics 2011 in Göttingen, Germany
http://youtu.be/HyN2BZPItrg