Protistology-UK (formerly the British Society for Protist Biology) is a learned society and membership organization for scientists and amateurs interested in all areas of protistology*, pure and applied, from ecological to medical studies, and from subcellular to population-level research.

The ​Society’s objectives are to:

• support and promote protistan research and teaching in the UK

• encourage and support the development of early-career scientists in the field of protistology

• hold scholarly meetings/events, to explore recent findings in the field of protistology

• encourage engagement with protistology through focused outreach

• foster ties with national and international learned societies with interests in protistology

*protistology: the study of unicellular eukaryotes