Jason E. Bond is an American biologist working as a Professor of Entomology and the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the University of California, Davis.
Jason Bond | |
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.jpg) Bond in 2012 | |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Western Carolina University (BS) Virginia Tech (MS, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Arachnology Myriapodology |
| Institutions | Auburn University East Carolina University University of California, Davis |
Education
editBond attended Western Carolina University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1993. He earned a Master of Science in biology (1995) and Ph.D. in evolutionary systematics and genetics (1999) from Virginia Tech.[1]
Career
editBond was a Professor of Biology, Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History at Auburn University.[1] When he was an associate professor with the Department of Biology at East Carolina University, he discovered the spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi and numerous other species in the genus Aptostichus.[2]
On August 6, 2008, Bond appeared on The Colbert Report, where he named the spider Aptostichus stephencolberti after host Stephen Colbert.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Jason E. Bond" (faculty page). Auburn University. Archived from the original on August 31, 2018.
- ^ Goldsmith, Belinda (May 11, 2008). Tourtellotte, Bob (ed.). "Neil Young gets new honor -- his own spider". Reuters. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
- ^ Melago, Carrie (August 1, 2008). "California spider named for Stephen Colbert". Daily News. Archived from the original on July 5, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
- ^ "New spider species named for Angelina Jolie, Bono". CBS News. Associated Press. January 19, 2013. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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