Bland J. Finlay FRS (16 March 1952 – 24 December 2021) was a British

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Career

Finlay received his bachelor's and PhD degrees from the

University of Stirling The University of Stirling (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals; ) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by a royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built within the walled Airth ...

. He worked as a lecturer at

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for a year, before moving to the

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's laboratory at

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where he was based from 1978 to 2003. Many of his research studies were conducted at the nearby pond of

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in the

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. He then worked at the

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from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Microbial Ecology,

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, before retiring in 2012. His research focused on the ecology and physiology of single celled eukaryotic microbes (

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s), particularly those from low-oxygen habitats.

Selected works

Tom Fenchel Tom Michael Fenchel (born 19 March 1940, in Copenhagen) is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist and known for, among other things, Fenche ...

, Bland J. Finlay, ''Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds'', Oxford University Press, 1995, * Bland J. Finlay, Global Dispersal of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryote Species. ''Science'' 296, 1061-1063 (2002)

References

External links

List of publications (archived 26 April 2012)
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