Jason Bond
American biologist
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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.
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Virginia Tech (MS, PhD)
Myriapodology
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| 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
Bond 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
Bond 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]
