On Thursday 23rd June 2022 Patricia Flanagan from the UNSW Art & Design Faculty invited Associate Professor Patrick Spicer and myself to speak at a forum called speculative textiles. This was hosted by our friend/former student and Founder of SynbioTe, Ismat Kabbara. We discussed the future of materials generation, industries such as fashion and synthetic …

For this week’s blog I had a chat with my business cofounder at Spider & Silk Supply, Vic Chang. Vic is a business graduate from Tunghai University in Taiwan (where I did a postdoc between 2010 and 2014). Since he is not a silk researcher or has expertise in materials science, chemistry, biology, or engineering, …

The 2018 “Uruguay Lectures” in Rivera, Uruguay, were a very important academic event to come to South America for many reasons, among them the concept of putting in a bid for the 2022 (which became 2023 due to COVID) World Congress of Arachnology (which Uruguay was successful in attaining) was first discussed. The Springer book …