Jane B. Reece is an American

United States

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 scientist and textbook author. She is the co-author, along with Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell (scientist)

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, of the Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks.

Reece received her A.B. in Biology from Harvard University

Harvard University

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, then received from Rutgers her M.S. in microbiology

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. Then, she earned her Ph.D. in bacteriology

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 from the University of California, Berkeley

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. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in genetics at Stanford University

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.

Reece has taught at various colleges, including Middlesex County College

Middlesex County College

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 (New Jersey

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) and Queensborough Community College

Queensborough Community College

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 (New York

New York

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). She has been the author of several textbooks at Benjamin Cummings

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, which she joined in 1978.
Dr. Reece also coauthored The World of the Cell, third edition, with W.M. Becker and M.F. Poenie.