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Silk Gordon Research Conference (GRC)

In July the lab attended the 2nd Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Silk at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI! Our lab was out in full force — research scientist David Onofrei, postdoc Kevin Chalek, graduate student Alexia de Loera, and even the PI all presented posters. Alexia also gave a short talk on her poster at the GRS, and David delivered a short poster talk as well.We covered a wide range of silk science: Pre-assembled silk spinning states Recombinant protein solution NMR (in collaboration with Thomas Scheibel’s group, U. Bayreuth) DNP-MAS NMR of spun fibers to probe sidechain packing And a PI poster on prey wrap spider silk biomimetics informed by native structure and assembly.Huge thanks to Keiji Numata and Chris Holland for organizing such a dynamic and inspiring conference. Great science, great people, and exciting directions ahead in silk materials research! Look forward to the next one! ...