Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Angela M. Alicea-Serrano is first author on ‘ Viscid silk in spider orb webs adheres strongly across surfaces with different roughness and surface energies’, published in BiO. Angela conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Todd A. Blackledge's lab at The University of Akron, Akron, USA. She is now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in biology in the lab of Ali Dhinojwala and Jessica E. Garb at the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron and University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA, investigating how form, function, and environment shape natural materials, with a focus on spider silk biomechanics and its role in prey capture.
Source: Biology Open
DOI: 10.1242/bio.061953
Language: English
Subfield: Biomaterials
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,995
OpenAlex ID: W4410130586