Yes, there is indeed a protist group at the museum, Dr. David Bass I think is head of this group, you should drop him an email.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/about-science/staff-directory/life-sciences/d-bass/index.html
]]>thanks for sharing your experience. As Eric says it looks a great place to do research. Do you know any protistologist working there? I am interested in marine protozoa and in microbial food webs.
Cheers
Alessandro
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