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All of us encounter spiders quite often, be it in our rooms or on different parts of campus. While these beautiful creatures may inspire fear in some of us, we can’t deny the beautiful architecture that is their web. Ever wondered how these spiders (and spiderman) got their web spinning powers? Well, look no further! Join us this week as Fenil describes how spiders evolved and developed their spinnerets.

See you on Wednesday at 4 PM- as usual, chai is on us!


The Paper: An ancient genome duplication event drives the development and evolution of spinnerets in spiders

The Who: Fenil

The What: DBJC

The When: Wednesday, 8th September; 4PM – 5PM

The Where: Chloroplast, 2nd Floor, ELC; or click right here (Log in using Meeting ID: 893 5665 4627; Passcode: 2BEW7K)

The Who Next: Nargis

In the meantime, if you come across exciting papers that you’d like covered at DBJC, please put them up here. This spreadsheet also has the roster, for your reference. You can sign up here. Please write to us if you have questions/comments. We’d appreciate any feedback!

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