Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Positive Feedback

While doing research and looking for black widow experts I came across The American Arachnid Society, and their head "expert", Jerome Rovner. I wrote him an email and explained what I was doing, and he gave me contact information for a man named Chuck Christiansen, founder of Spiderpharm.com. Jerome told me he knows more about black widows than anyone else in the world, and supplies their venom to pharmaceutical companies. I emailed Chuck, who got back to me almost immediately with a bunch of scientific articles that show molecular makeup of the venom and antibodies. So exciting! That's exactly what I needed so that I could model them close up. Things seem to be coming together...

2 comments:

Steve said...

I think it will be really interesting to see what your models end up looking like for the venom and antibodies and all that science stuff...

claire said...

Wow, that's really cool! Can't wait to see what all the scary stuff actually looks like.