Bland Finlay

British biologist

Queen Mary University of London

Awards

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".