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Silk-based biomaterials and applications · Biomaterials

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h-index55
i10-index105
Publications137
Citations11,412

Grants

9 total · 0 active

NSF #2015389

ICBR: Establishment of an Ancient DNA and Paleoproteomics Laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2021-01-15 → 2025-12-31
PIs
3

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #2031896

Collaborative Research: Behavior and Evolution of the Novel Self-Curing Bioadhesive of Moth-Specialist Spiders

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2020-11-01 → 2025-10-31
PIs
2

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #1950610

REU SITE: Systematics, Evolution and Conservation for the 21st Century

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2020-03-15 → 2024-02-29
PIs
3

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

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All Grants

9 total · 0 active

NSF #2015389

ICBR: Establishment of an Ancient DNA and Paleoproteomics Laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2021-01-15 → 2025-12-31
PIs
3

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #2031896

Collaborative Research: Behavior and Evolution of the Novel Self-Curing Bioadhesive of Moth-Specialist Spiders

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
2020-11-01 → 2025-10-31
PIs
2

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #1950610

REU SITE: Systematics, Evolution and Conservation for the 21st Century

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2020-03-15 → 2024-02-29
PIs
3

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #1754979

Collaborative Research: Integrating Molecular and Material Evolution of Spider Aqueous Glues

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2018-08-15 → 2023-07-31
PIs
2

Awarded at American Museum Natural History

NSF #0951061

Collaborative Research: Functional genomics of spider silk synthesis and fiber performance within the Western black widow and among cob-web weaving spiders

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2010-05-01 → 2015-04-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Riverside

NSF #0910365

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Spider Silk Evolution Across Ancient & Recent Phylogenetic Divergences

Amount
<$100K
Period
2009-07-01 → 2012-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of California-Riverside

NSF #0515868

Collaborative Research: Phylogeny, Behavior, and Silk Evolution of Web Spinners (Embloptera), a Little-Known Insect Order

Amount
—
Period
2005-09-01 → 2010-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Riverside

NSF #0236020

Silk Protein Evolution and Spider Phylogenetics: an EST Approach

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2003-09-01 → 2007-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of California-Riverside

NSF #9510799

NSF/Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evolution for 1995

Amount
<$100K
Period
1996-01-01 → 1998-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at NY Fellowships

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: On the dynamic caddisfly silk <i>H-fibroin</i> gene: a population study in a net-spinning species (Molecular Biology and Evolution)2026-06-01
  2. New preprint: Elastomeric Behavior of the Bombyx Mori Fibroin (Gagags)N Tandem Motifs2025-01-01

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