The Holland Lab was awarded a new DOD-ARO grant this month! The grant is titled: “Structural Biology of Aciniform Spider Silk Guides Biomimetics for a New Class of Biomaterials”. The project will focus on understanding prey wrap spider silk structure and assembly including its unique hydration-induced cross-linking property. The work will rely heavily on a combination of solution and solid-state NMR together with XRD and MD modeling to understand the holistic aciniform silk assembly ...