It’s been less than half a year since Eckhard Voelcker and Steffen Clauß launched their enchanting online gallery of amoeboid organisms, www.Penard.de. Already, it has emerged as one of the best places to find micrographs of amoebae and heliozoans, and the collection is continuing to grow and improve. The site features some superb light microscopy, but…
David J. Patterson–known to friends and colleagues as “Paddy”–is a major figure in eukaryote taxonomy, evolutionary protistology and biodiversity informatics. In the 42 years since his first paper was published (a nifty little study of habituation in Vorticella) he has done enough work for several ordinary careers. With various collaborators, he has added some 250…
Ferry Siemensma is an independent researcher in the Netherlands, and a leading expert on several groups of amoeboid and heliozoan organisms. For the past two years he’s been building a website devoted to his favourite creatures: Microworld: world of Amoeboid Organisms. This was an ambitious project from the beginning, but over time it has gradually…
