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Gwilym Davies

Publications

2013 Davies, G.J.G., Knight, D.P. & Vollrath, F. - Chitin in the Silk Gland Ducts of the Spider Nephila edulis and the Silkworm Bombyx mori. PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073225 in press

2013 Davies, G.J.G., Knight, D.P. & Vollrath, F. - Structure and function of the major ampullate spinning duct of the golden orb weaver, Nephila edulis. Tissue and Cell, 45 (5): 306-311 access

Presentations

2012

Silk Spinning in Spiders, Animal Behaviour Seminar Series, Department of Zoology, Oxford

Observations on phase separation during spinning silk in-vivo, European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference, Imperial College, London (poster)

Observations on phase separation during spinning silk in-vivo, Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Salzburg, Austria (poster)

2011

Biological insights into fibre formation, Biofuture, Ghent, Belgium (poster)

2010

The search for the golden thread, Middle Common Room Presentation Series, Pembroke College, Oxford

PRISM: Phenotypic Relationships in Silk Morphology, Animal Behaviour Seminar Series, Department of Zoology, Oxford

Conferences

European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference, Imperial College, London 2012

Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Salzburg, Austria 2012

Biofuture, Ghent, Belgium 2011

Affiliations

Member, British Arachnological Society

Member, EuroMech (European Mechanics of Matter Society)

Associate member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Member, Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable

Member, Pembroke College Oxford, Middle Common Room

Member, Society for Experimental Biology

Member, Vintage Motorcycle Club

 

 
Recent News

November 2019

Prof. Fritz Vollrath and colleagues from the Fudan University in China are widely covered in the news for their discovery of a means to produce fake Rhino horns using horse hair. Hopes are that this product may undermine the illegal market for rhino horn, and demistify the properties of rhino horn. View Here

 

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