Lab alumna Kaylin Chong* presented her work on the allometry of spider eyes at the American Arachnological Society meeting this week! 👩🏻‍💼🥳🕷️ We are cheering you on from the other side of the pond - stay tuned for a pre-print soon! *then Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford Biology, now Museum of Comparative Zoology!

And to close 2023, another spidery treat! Eye size is linked to many aspects of visual physiology, ecology, and behaviour - but what if you can have lots of eyes, in different sizes? Kaylin Chong dived into the visual allometry of spiders to find out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

先日OISTの方々とやんばるへ行ってきました！写真はキジロオヒキグモと、それを皆で観察しているところです。 I went to the Yambaru with OIST researchers the other day! These two pictures are of a Scorpion tail spider and us while observing it, respectively.

Very excited to share my first paper is out! 🎉 We explore the evolution of the multiple eye pairs in spiders🕷️(cell.com/current-biolog…) Couldn’t have done it without to the mentorship of the brilliant Lauren Sumner-Rooney!