Bland James Finlay

Bland James Finlay FRS (16 March 1952 – 24 December 2021 ) 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. He then worked at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology from 2003 to 2007. His research focused on the ecology and physiology of single celled eukaryotic microbes (protists), particularly those from low-oxygen habitats.

Selected works Tom Fenchel, 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).