UC Riverside biologist receives prestigious MacArthur ...(her biology teacher in high school as we...)

Date:9/25/2007

her biology teacher in high school, as well as a professor at Yale who worked with spiders. As an undergraduate, Hayashi was charged with feeding spiders and also got to do field work in Panama. She is indebted, too, to Randy Lewis, her postdoctoral advisor at the University of Wyoming, for his time and expertise.

And lets not forget the spiders themselves, Hayashi said. They, too, have greatly inspired me. Im always learning something new from them, which is what keeps my research going.

Her scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Experimental Biology.

In addition to her teaching and research activities, Hayashi is dedicated to mentoring undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs in her laboratory. She also serves as an associate editor of the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

A frequent contributor to newspaper, magazine, television, and radio interviews to explain the value of spider silk, biomaterials, and biodiversity to the public, Hayashi volunteers much of her time to educational and public outreach.

More recently, she expanded her studies to include silks from other arthropods (such as caterpillars), non-silk proteins such as glues, and comparative analysis of spider silk biomechanics.

Hayashi plans to use the award money to travel abroad so she can work on spiders with researchers in other countries. "I had always dreamed of such an opportunity," she said. "So far, I've mostly worked on California spiders."

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Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala iqbal@ucr.edu 951-827-6050 University of California - Riverside Source:Eurekalert

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