Skip to main content

Genetics, Genomics, & Biotechnology

Caddisfly Silk Evolution

Caddisflies are known as "nature's underwater architects" because they use a special underwater bio adhesive silk to build tube cases and fixed retreats that aid in camouflage, protection, feeding, and respiration in oxygen-poor aquatic environments. We are interested in how this ability to spin this underwater silk evolved and how the genomic basis of silk production varies across the panoply of uses within caddisflies.

People Involved

data-content-type="employee"

Paul Frandsen

PWS, Assistant Professor
Genetics, Genomics, and Biotechnology
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="employee"

Gabriela Jijon-Nemalceff

Graduate Student

Program 
Genetics, Genomics, and Biotechnology
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="employee"

Ashlyn Powell

Undergraduate student

Program 
Bioinformatics
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="employee"

Taden Lemmon

Undergraduate Student

Program
Biodiversity and conservation biology
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="employee"

Danyon Gedris

Graduated BS

Program 
Genetics, Genomics, and Biotechnology
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="oneOffPage"
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText=