Robert E. Page Jr.
Born
Robert E. Page Jr.

(1949-11-12) 12 November 1949
Bakersfield, CA, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSan Jose State University ( B.S.)
University of California-Davis (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsArizona State University, University of California-Davis and Ohio State University

Robert E. Page Jr. (born 12 November 1949) is one of the foremost honey bee geneticists in the world and a Foundation Chair of Life Sciences of Arizona State University. An author of more than 250 research papers and articles, his work on the self-organizing regulatory networks of honey bees has been outlined in his book, "The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution,"[1][2] published by Harvard University Press in 2013. Page currently holds the titles of Arizona State University Provost Emeritus and Regents Professor Emeritus. He is also chair and professor emeritus at the University of California-Davis and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Biography and education

Page was born in Bakersfield, California, and spent his childhood there until he attended high school in Porterville, California. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972. With support from the G.I. Bill, he received his undergraduate degree in entomology, with a minor in chemistry, from San Jose State University in 1976. He was awarded his Ph.D. in entomology from University of California-Davis in 1980. He began his career as an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology with Ohio State University in 1986, moving to the University of California-Davis in 1989, where he became chair for UC-Davis's Department of Entomology in 1999. He joined Arizona State University (ASU) in 2004 as founding director of ASU's School of Life Sciences,[3] one of the first interdisciplinary academic units developed under President Michael Crow's vision of the "New American University."[4] His background is in behavior and population genetics and the focus of his current research is on the evolution of complex social behavior. Using the honey bee as a model, Professor Page has dissected bee's complex foraging division of labor at all levels of biological organization – from gene networks to complex social interactions. An internationally recognized scholar, he has published more than 230 research papers and articles. In 2005, he was listed as an ISI's Highly Cited author in plant and animal science – representing the top ½ percent of publishing researchers.[5]

He served as provost of Arizona State University (2013–2015),[6] and vice provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the largest college in the university (2011–2013).[7] During this period he forged a platform to accelerate ASU’s transdisciplinary collaboration in the U.S. and Europe, advance educational reform, and jumpstart cutting-edge "virtual" learning formats. He also established ASU's Honey Bee Research Facility.

Scientific work

Honey bee pollinating flowers

Robert Page's background is in behavior and population genetics and the focus of his current research is on the evolution of complex social behavior. Using the honey bee as a model, he has dissected bee's complex foraging division of labor at all levels of biological organization – from gene networks to complex social interactions. His work, as well as that of his distinguished students, is outlined in his publication "The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution,"[8] released by Harvard University Press in 2013. As described on the fly leaf: "This book presents a comprehensive picture of the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how bees' complex social behavior has evolved over millions of years." His work has been cited in more than 18,000 publications and has an h-index value of 74.

Honors

Publications

Journal articles

Robert Page has authored or coauthored more than 250 scientific studies or review articles on genetics and evolution of social insect behavior.

Books

  • Page, Robert E.; Hölldobler, Bert (2013). The spirit of the hive: The mechanisms of social evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674073029.
  • Laidlaw, Harry Hyde; Page, Robert E. (1997). Queen rearing and bee breeding (1st ed.). Kalamazoo, Mich: Wicwas Press. ISBN 187807508X.

Edited books

  • Needham, G. R., R. E. Page, M. Delfinado Baker, and C. E. Bowman (editors). 1988. Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites. Ellis Horwood Ltd., West Sussex, England, 572 pp.
  • Breed, M. D. and R. E. Page (editors). 1989. The Genetics of Social Evolution, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 213 pp.
  • Erickson, E. H., R. E. Page, and A. A. Hanna (editors). 2002. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites. The A.I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, 379 pp.

References

  1. ↑ "Robert E. Page Jr.: The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution". University of California – Davis. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Winston, Mark L. (2013). "Entomology: The apian way". Nature. 498 (7454): 296–297. Bibcode:2013Natur.498..296W. doi:10.1038/498296a.
  3. ↑ "Page Hired as Founding Director of ASU's New School of Life Sciences". Arizona State University. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "A New American University". Arizona State University. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Highly Cited Research from Thomson Reuters". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Page named university provost". Arizona State University. 2013-11-19. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Page appointed dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences". Arizona State University News. 2011-05-13. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "The Spirit of the Hive — Robert E. Page, Jr. | Harvard University Press". Hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  9. ↑ "Academia Brasileira de Ciências". Abc.org.br. 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  10. ↑ "wiko-berlin.de". wiko-berlin.de. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  11. ↑ "Honey Bee Geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. Named UC Davis Distinguished Emeritus". ANR Blogs. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
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