Jason Bond is an associate
professor with the Department of Biology at East Carolina University
. He discovered the
trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
He went to
undergraduate school at Western Carolina University
, majoring in biology. He then went to
receive his M.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Evolutionary Systematics
and Genetics from Virginia
Tech
.
On
August 6,
2008 Bond
appeared on
The Colbert
Report , where he named a spider the
Aptostichus stephencolberti
after host
Stephen Colbert.
References
- Neil Young gets new honor - his own spider - Yahoo!
News
- Cobert Report
External links