Welcome to Protistology UK!

Our Learned Society (formerly the British Society for Protist Biology) is a membership organisation for scientists and amateurs interested in all areas of protistology; from ecological to medical and from sub-cellular to population studies. The Society primarily exists to support and promote protistan research and teaching in the UK but a key aim is to encourage the development of young scientists. We host two scientific meetings a year and provide bursaries for student attendance together with prizes for student presentations.

This is the website of the Protistology-UK, formerly known as the British Society for Protist Biology.

P-UK exists:

• To promote the study, teaching and dissemination of all aspects of protistology.

• To provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of results obtained from original research and for an exchange of information on experimental design and techniques.

• To encourage developing and novel aspects of protistology.

• To represent the interests of protistology on other professional bodies.

• To assist young scientists researching in protistology to attend professional meetings.

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P-UK Winter meeting 2021: Protist parasites of freshwater microalgae - 8th January 2021.

This year, P-UK has teamed up with the British Phycological Society (BPS) in the delivery of a special session on ‘Protist parasites of freshwater microalgae’.

The session will run within the BPS’s annual conference (on-line this year) - Click here for more information.

Past & Related Meetings

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• CANCELLED Exploring the Eukaryotic Tree of Life at the Microbiology Society Annual Meeting. April 2-3, 2020. Edinburgh International Convention Centre (EICC).

• From parasites to plankton and back: comparative biology and ecology of apicomplexans and dinoflagellates. 7-11 September 2020. Roscoff, France.​ Details here.​

• Microbial Symbiosis Meeting - December 16-17, 2019. London, UK. Details here.