USA trip July 2016: International congress of Arachnology & Arizona State University
From July 1-9 Sean Blamires, Hamish Craig (UNSW), Jonas Wolff (Macquarie University) and Shichang Zhang and Dakota Piorkowski (Tunghai University) attended the 20th International Congress of Arachnology in Golden Colorado. We caught up with many fellow Arachnologists. From July 11-15 Sean Blamires and Hamish Craig visited the Molecular Science (NMR) Facility at Arizona State University…
DetailsThe following article featured in the Sydney Morning Heral article, July 30, 2016:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/sonic-mysteries-of-spider-silk-open-pathways-to-new-synthetic-materials-20160728-gqgaqa.html
My article Why we can’t spin a silken yarn as strong as a spider can appeared in The Conversation on Thursday February 2, 2017.
Read it here:
ABC Radio interview
Sean Blamires was interviewed by Ali Clarke on ABC Morning Radio on February, discussing the wonders of spider silks, their commercial applications and which spiders that spin the best silks.