Bland Finlay
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2004)
Bland J. Finlay FRS (16 March 1952 - 24 December 2021[1][2]) was a British biologist.
Career
Finlay received his bachelor's and PhD degrees from the University of Stirling. He worked as a lecturer at University of Jos for a year, before moving to the Freshwater Biological Association's laboratory at Windermere where he was based from 1978 to 2003.[1] Many of his research studies were conducted at the nearby pond of Priest Pot in the Lake District.[3] He then worked at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology from 2003 to 2007.[1] In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Microbial Ecology, Queen Mary, University of London, before retiring in 2012.[4] His research focused on the ecology and physiology of single celled eukaryotic microbes (protists), particularly those from low-oxygen habitats.[2]
Selected works
- Tom Fenchel, Bland J. Finlay, Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds, Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-854838-6
- Bland J. Finlay, Global Dispersal of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryote Species. Science 296, 1061-1063 (2002). [1]
References
- ^ a b c Fenchel, Tom (October 2022). "Bland James Finlay (March 16, 1952–December 24, 2021)". Protist. 173 (5): 125906. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2022.125906.
- ^ a b "Bland Finlay". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Berninger, Ulrike-G. (December 2022). "Some Personal Memories of Bland J. Finlay and Work on Protists in "Priest Pot"". Protist. 173 (6): 125910. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2022.125910.
- ^ "Bland J Finlay - School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences".
External links
- List of publications (archived 26 April 2012)
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