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Saturday, August 20, 2005


Nephila clavipes is a big spider. This one wasn't though, probably about half the adult size. Their webs can be 2 meters in diameter in their native habitat, southeastern USA. They're also the lab rats of many a scientific spider silk study, which explains how I got a picture.

I went up to Laramie, Wyoming the University of Wyoming's Molecular Biology Lab. This is the place where they have sequenced tons of spider silk genes. I met with Shane Nelson a graduate student there in the hopes that we could work together for some project -- perhaps investigating the structure of the silk molecules. Posted by Picasa

2 comments:

San Nakji said...

That's really exciting!

Hypatia said...

Yes, yes! Now I just need to figure out how to turn it into an acceptable project!