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…
DetailsOn 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…
Sean Blamires and Aditya Rawal have received a Hermon Slade Foundation grant to do further research into spider silk genetics, artificial spinning and NMR analyses.
Our paper “Ontogenetic shift towards stronger, tougher silk in a web building cave spider” has been published in the February 2018 issue of Journal of Zoology as the cover page article.
see: http://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/issue/10.1111/jzo.2018.304.issue-2/
Our article on silkworm silk nanopores was the cover article for the August 7 edition of Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
