Professor Mark Pallen
Mark Pallen has been Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Birmingham since July 2001. Mark is dually qualified as a scientist (PhD) and as a medic/clinical bacteriologist (MBBS, MRCPath), and benefits from 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 activities, see the Pallen Group web page.
Mark's profile on the School of Biosciences web site
Mark teaches microbiology, bioinformatics and human genome evolution.
[Link to Pallen teaching materials]
Read the five-star reviews!: "A Grand and Glorious Guide to Evolution..."
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/Darwiniana Projects
Trivia
During a research leave fellowship while working on a PhD, Mark led the Imperial College team to victory in the 1995-6 series of University Challenge. To see how their performances compare to those of other teams in the programme's recent history, visit Sean Blanchflower's site.
