Spider Silk Research – Research exploring the mechanics and evolution of spider silk

Female Argiope keyserlingi with male on the web

Field trip 2016: Brisbane, Ballina & Sydney

Taiwan Research Trip 2015: Photos

Causes and Consequences of

Variations in Spider Silk

Physiological Behavioural Aspects smaller

Physiological and Behavioural

Aspects of Spider Web Variation

Interspecific and Inter-individual

Variations in Pyriform Silk Properties

Role of Spidrion Expression and Silk

Spinning in Controlling Spider Silk Properties

Influence of Pesticides on Spider Web

and Silk Physical and Chemical Properties

Ecological influences of silk properties in the

Tasmanian cave spider Hickmania troglodytes

News

Uruguay trip 1
June 11, 2018

Research on Badumna invasion in Uruguay featured in la Diaria Ciencia
June 10, 2018

Article featured in “Inside JEB”
February 27, 2018

Spider silk properties tracked from genes to fibre mechanics
February 15, 2018

Hickmania troglodytes on cover of Journal of Zoology
February 2, 2018

Spidrion Expression and Spider Silk Properties

Physiological and Behavioural Aspects of Spider Web Variation

Causes and Consequences of Variations in Spider Silk Colours

Spider Sticky Thread Property Variability

Silk properties in the Tasmanian cave spider Hickmania troglodytes