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Mark Pallen is Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Warwick, England. He is author of the book The Rough Guide to Evolution and of the associated blog. He was, with Dominic White, creator of the Origin of Species in Dub, an amateur celebration of Darwin's work realised through the medium of reggae music.

Pallen's research interests focus on bacterial genomics and type-III secretion. He was senior editor of the book, Bacterial Pathogenomics and author of a review article of the same name in the journal Nature. He also written several articles on flagellar evolution, often countering creationist claims that the bacterial flagellum is intelligently designed.

In 1996, Pallen led a team of scientists to victory in the UK TV quiz show, University Challenge.