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Spider Systematics and Integrative Biology
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Graduate Students

Current
Sarah Stellwagen  
     
Former
  Amy Ware Geographic variation in spider reproductive anatomy
     
Paula Cushing Predator deference behavior of orb-weaving spiders
    Vision of uloborid orb-weaving spiders
     
Jason Bond Systematics of the dictynid spider genera Mallos and Mexitilia
    Systematics of the North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders
    Features of spider cribellar and viscous prey capture threads
     
Anya Hawthorn Adhesive mechanisms of spider cribellar prey capture thread

Undergraduate Students

Former
  Gabriel Roth Web manipulation and its affect on the stickiness of cribellar threads
     
  David Konur

Influence of web-monitoring tactics on the density of mitochondria in spider leg muscles

     
Jamel Sandage Functional anatomy of spider cribellar thread spinning apparatus
     
Sarah Crews Effects of starvation on web and capture thread features of cribellate orb-weaving spiders
     
Sophie Bous Systematics of the New Zealand spider genus Amaruobioides
    Embryology of orb-weaving spiders
     
Michael Manning Systematics of the New Zealand spider genus Amaruobioides
     
Andrea Berger Systematics of the New Zealand spider genus Amaruobioides
    Body size of the New Zealand orb-weaving spider Waitkera waitakerensis
    Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Rachel Shaffer Body size of the New Zealand orb-weaving spider Waitkera waitakerensis
     
Brian Segal Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Mike Leonard Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Lindsay Neist Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Harry Schwend Studies of the adhesive delivery system of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Brian Markley The contribution of axial fiber extensibility to the adhesion of viscous prey capture threads
     
Genine Lipkey Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Kaitlin Flora Stickiness of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Steve Vito Studies of the adhesive delivery system of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Andrew Tran Adhesive compatibility of cribellar and viscous prey capture threads
     
Current
Shannon Karinshak

Adhesive compatibility of cribellar and viscous prey capture threads

Humidity affects the extensibiliity of an orb-weaving spider's viscous thread droplets.

     
Mary Sigler Humidity affects the extensibiliity of an orb-weaving spider's viscous thread droplets.
     


Former Research Technicians

Mary Lee Hendricks Studies of the adhesive delivery system of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
     
Chip Hannum Studies of the adhesive delivery system of viscous prey capture threads from spider orb-webs
    Systematics of the New Zealand spider genus Amaruobioides
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