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DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
REPORTS
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No. 3, July 2, 2016
Cushing
Tuesday, July 5
(*indicates student competition; name is session moderator)
Metals Hall
Petroleum Hall
8:45
Bunker Auditorium: Welcome and Information
9:00
Keynote in Bunker Auditorium. Cheryl Hayashi - Evolution of Spider Silk
Genes
10:00
Break
Symposium: Spider silk biology, bio-
technology, and biomimetic
inspiration from Arachnids
Competition
10:25
Todd Blackledge
- Intelligent adhesives:
the structure and function of humidity
responsive spider aggregate glues
*
Kenneth Chapin
- Investigating resource
contests with the amblypygid
Phrynus
longipes
10:45
Brent Opell
- Humidity affects insect
retention by spider orb webs
Susan E Riechert
- Spiderling interactions
on the group web: social tyranny rules in
Agelenopsis aperta
!
11:00
*
Bor-Kai Hsiung
- Blue tarantulas and
dancing rainbow spiders inspire new color
technologies
*
Leilani Walker
- Male-male competition
and chelicera morphology in New Zealand
sheet-web spiders
11:15
Crystal Chaw
- Comparison of dragline silk
gland morphology and silk genes in two
spiders
Rowan McGinley
- Assessment strategies in
male-male contests of jumping spiders
11:30
*
Angela M Alicea-Serrano
- Do silk
properties evolve during adaptive radiations
of Hawaiian spiders?
Heather Proctor
- Male polymorphism in
bird-associated mites (Acariformes:
Astigmata)
11:45
Ingi Agnarsson
- De-novo genomes of
orb-weaving spiders reveal the diversity and
complexity of spider-silk genes
*
Hua Zeng
- Ornamental coloration
associated assessment strategy in male-male
contests of
Siler semiglaucus
jumping spiders
12:00
Lunch
Symposium: Locomotion and
Kinematics: From joints and legs to
whole-body performance–
Jonas Wolff
Silk biology - Systematics
12:55
Jeff Shultz
- Muscles, hydraulics and
springs: perspectives on joint mechanics in
arachnid locomotion
Sean J Blamires
- Analysis of spider silk
structural variability using small and wide-
angle X-ray diffraction
13:15
Christian S. Wirkner
- Three dimensional
analysis of the arachnid locomotory system -
topics and problems
*
Hamish Craig
- Broad species comparative
meta-analysis of key amino acid densities and
silk structural properties
13:30
*
Jens Runge
- Three dimensional analysis
of the spider locomotory system - first
answers and solutions
*
Sandra Correa-Garhwal
- Silk gene
expression profiles of male versus female
Cob-Weaving spiders
13:45
Christian Kropf
- The hemolymph pressure
pump of armored spiders (Araneae)
*
Dakota Piorkowski
- Ontogenetic shift
towards stronger, tougher silk of web
building Tasmanian cave spider