Jane Reece

Jane B. Reece (born 15 April 1944) is an American scientist and textbook author.

Along with American biologist Neil Campbell, she wrote the widely used Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks.

Her doctoral thesis was entitled 'The RecE pathway of genetic combination in Escherichia Coli'.

She is the author or co-author of several textbooks at Benjamin Cummings, at which place she has served as an editor since she joined in 1978. Notable among her works is The World of the Cell, third edition, which she co-authored with W.M.

In 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden.