Sean Blamires (0000-0001-5953-3723)

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I research the structure and function of spider and other insect silks at multiple scales, i.e. from their genes and gene expression to nano properties to protein and bulk fibre properties. My lab has initiated experiments to produce silk proteins synthetically and we are developing spinning methodologies with an eye to creating silk-based products. I am also academically interested in the mechanisms and consequences of animal colouration, and using all kinds of advanced techniques to understand structure, function and ecologies of animals.

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University of New South Wales: NSW, NSW, AU

(Biological, Earth & Environmental Science)

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Sean Blamires

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University of New South Wales: NSW, NSW, AU

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Developing a technology readiness pathway toward creating high performance recombinant spider silks

Investigation on protein structure transition of natural protein fibres at controlled tensile strains

The genetic and structural diversity of spider-silk

Mechanisms influencing the evolutionary trajectories of extended phenotypes

Developing spider silk spinning protocols

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From fibres to adhesives: evolution of spider capture threads from web anchors by radical changes in silk gland function

Physico-chemical properties of functionally adhesive spider silk nanofibres

Challenges and opportunities for innovation in bioinformed sustainable materials

Structure and Optical Anisotropy of Spider Scales and Silk: The Use of Chromaticity and Azimuth Colors to Optically Characterize Complex Biological Structures

The Spider Silk Standardization Initiative (S3I): A powerful tool to harness biological variability and to systematize the characterization of major ampullate silk fibers spun by spiders from suburban Sydney, Australia

Organic salt composition of pressure sensitive adhesives produced by spiders

Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs

Methods for Silk Property Analyses across Structural Hierarchies and Scales

Nanovoid formation induces property variation within and across individual silkworm silk threads

1000 spider silkomes: Linking sequences to silk physical properties

Population level variation in silk chemistry but not web architecture in a widely distributed orb web spider

Silk: Exploring Nature's Superfibre

Nutritionally induced nanoscale variations in spider silk structural and mechanical properties

Nanoscale Material Heterogeneity of Glowworm Capture Threads Revealed by AFM

Adhesive Droplets of Glowworm Snares (Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa spp.) Are a Complex Mix of Organic Compounds

Biomechanical costs and benefits of sit-and-wait foraging traps

Meta-analysis reveals materiomic relationships in major ampullate silk across the spider phylogeny

High contrast yellow mosaic patterns are prey attractants for orb‐weaving spiders

Photoreflectance/scattering measurements of spider silks informed by standard optics

Spider Silk Biomimetics Programs to Inform the Development of New Wearable Technologies

DNP NMR spectroscopy reveals new structures, residues and interactions in wild spider silks

Orb web spider silks: how their optics affects potential visibility

Author Correction: Silk physico-chemical variability and mechanical robustness facilitates intercontinental invasibility of a spider

Silk physico-chemical variability and mechanical robustness facilitates intercontinental invasibility of a spider

Spider silk colour covaries with thermal properties but not protein structure

Multifunctionality of an arthropod predator’s body coloration

Modelling temperature and humidity effects on web performance: implications for predicting orb-web spider (Argiope spp.) foraging under Australian climate change scenarios

High performance silks deployed by web building wolf spiders

Humidity‐dependent mechanical and adhesive properties of <i>Arachnocampa tasmaniensis</i> capture threads

Web building and silk properties functionally covary among species of wolf spider

Ontogenetic shift toward stronger, tougher silk of a web‐building, cave‐dwelling spider

Multiscale mechanisms of nutritionally induced property variation in spider silks

Physicochemical property variation in spider silk: ecology, evolution, and synthetic production

Webs: Diversity, Structure and Function

Clarity of objectives and working principles enhances the success of biomimetic programs

Nanostructural and mechanical property changes to spider silk as a consequence of insecticide exposure

Fiddler crab spatial distributions are influenced by physiological stressors independent of sympatric interactions

Fitness consequences of plasticity in an extended phenotype

Making up for lost time: Biophysical constraints on the temporal abundance of two fiddler crabs in wet-dry tropical mangroves

Prey Luring Coloration of A Nocturnal Semi‐Aquatic Predator

Evidence of Decoupling Protein Structure from Spidroin Expression in Spider Dragline Silks

Spider web and silk performance landscapes across nutrient space

Diet-induced covariation between architectural and physicochemical plasticity in an extended phenotype

A re-evaluation of the formula to estimate the volume of orb web glue droplets

Spatiotemporal distribution and abundance of mangrove ecosystem engineers: burrowing crabs around canopy gaps

Top down and bottom up selection drives variations in frequency and form of a visual signal

Mechanical Performance of Spider Silk Is Robust to Nutrient-Mediated Changes in Protein Composition

Can differential nutrient extraction explain property variations in a predatory trap?

A predator’s body coloration enhances its foraging profitability by day and night

Evidence of bird dropping masquerading by a spider to avoid predators

Peer review (8 reviews for 6 publications/grants)