2nd Czech-British arachnological seminar

Org: Martin Forman, Jiří Král

Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, lecture hall „Fotochemie“ on the ground floor on the left

• Tamsin Majerus – Lovely Ladybirds
• Domagoj Gajski – Realized trophic niche of an ant-eating predator (Zodarion rubidum) during ontogenetic developmen
• Ella Deutsch – What's Yours is Mine: The impact of kleptoparasitic load on the feeding behaviour of a colonial tent-weaving spider Cyrtophora citricola
• Matěj Kotz – Evolutionary mechanisms of karyotype diversification in orb-web spiders (Araneae: Araneidae)
• Leah Ashley – Spider silk evolution and it's use as a biomaterial: a bioinformatics approach
• Ondřej Košulič, Kamila Surovcová, Tomáš Hamřík, Radek Michalko – Moderate infestation by ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) as improver of spider diversity in lowland forests?

Lunch

• Bryce Tidswell – Web construction and ecological preferences of Argyroneta aquatica
• Charlotte Deall – Using nature to create silken biomaterials
• Sara Goodacre – Spiders in citizen science
• Jiří Král – Evolution of karyotype and sex chromosomes in spiders