{{Short description|American biologist}}{{Infobox academic | name = Jason Bond | image = Jason Bond looks under moss for spruce-fir moss spiders (8125774114).jpg | caption = Bond in 2012 | education = Western Carolina University (BS)<br>Virginia Tech (MS, PhD) | discipline = Biology | sub_discipline = Arachnology<br>Myriapodology | workplaces = Auburn University<br>East Carolina University<br>University of California, Davis }}
'''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.
== 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.<ref name="auburn" />
== 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.<ref name="auburn">{{cite web|url=https://www.auburn.edu/academic/cosam/faculty/biology/bond/|title=Jason E. Bond|publisher=Auburn University|type=faculty page|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831152148/https://www.auburn.edu/academic/cosam/faculty/biology/bond/|archive-date=August 31, 2018}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spider-young-idUSSP19797120080512|title=Neil Young gets new honor -- his own spider|last=Goldsmith|first=Belinda|date=May 11, 2008|access-date=December 10, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210082934/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spider-young-idUSSP19797120080512|archive-date=December 10, 2019|work=Reuters|editor-last=Tourtellotte|editor-first=Bob}}</ref>
On August 6, 2008, Bond appeared on ''The Colbert Report'', where he named the spider ''Aptostichus stephencolberti'' after host Stephen Colbert.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/california-spider-named-stephen-colbert-article-1.317362|title=California spider named for Stephen Colbert|last=Melago|first=Carrie|date=August 1, 2008|work=Daily News|access-date=December 10, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705223620/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/california-spider-named-stephen-colbert-article-1.317362|archive-date=July 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-spider-species-named-for-angelina-jolie-bono/|title=New spider species named for Angelina Jolie, Bono|date=January 19, 2013|access-date=December 10, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413060756/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-spider-species-named-for-angelina-jolie-bono/|archive-date=April 13, 2019|publisher=CBS News|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
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== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080628190351/http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/biology/bond_jason.cfm Jason Bond Faculty page] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150416040614/http://core.ecu.edu/biol/bondja/Bond_Lab_Website/Home.html The Bond Lab] *{{YouTube | UId_xg1xMX8| Celebrity Spiders - Auburn University interview}}
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