Glow worm cave expedition
On Septmber 3 2018, Sean Blamires, Jonas Wolff and Deb Kane (Macquarie University) visited the Blue Mountians glow worm cave to sample the glow worm glues and photograph spiders. A sample of the photos are shown…
Aditya Rawal presented silkworm silk research at Western Sydney NMR, MRI and Diffusion Symposium
On November 9 2018, Aditya Rawal presented our collaborative silkworm silk NMR, FTIR, AFM and TEM results at the 8th Western Sydney University NMR, MRI and Diffusion Workshop at WSU, Campbelltown. The talk covered the material properties of native and reconstituted silks, amino acid sequences and how examine structures using NMR, FTIR, XRD etc. 1…
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Nanoscale Group_Lecture_Blamires
Sean Blamires is presenting to the University of Western Sydney’s Organisation and Dynamics Group in Campbelltown on Friday, February 22, 2019 (see attached poster).
The Scientist Article about our Herennia body colouration paper
A news article on our paper on the multifunctional role of Herennia multipuncta’s orange body colours was published in ‘The Scientist’. See: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/spiders-orange-colors-both-lure-prey-and-frighten-predators-65768?fbclid=IwAR3u2gWvP_6BLjo47VwpKLKh7Y-dSQcPEd0_t5k7YuT8WAPxFjJJdwN25OU
Frontiers in Silk Science and Technologies Conference, Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Italy
Between June 12 and 15 2019 I attended the International Silk Conference within Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Italy. The conference covered all matters of silk, covering everything from the History of Silk trade across Europe to advanced materials manufacturing, from the ecology of silk making insects to surgical applications of silk derived products. David Kaplan…
DetailsAOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019
Collaborative work between the Spider Silk Research Lab and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University will be presented at the upcoming (December 9-12) Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy, in Melbourne.
See https://spie.org/AU/conferencedetails/aos-optical-fibre-technology-acoft-and-optics- lasers-spectroscopy-acols?SSO=1https://spie.org/AU/conferencedetails/aos-optical-fibre-technology-acoft-and-optics-lasers-spectroscopy-acols?SSO=1