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
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