The Network on "Silk: Properties and Production" was approved by the ESF Executive Council in September 1998 for a three-year period.
The Chairman was Professor Fritz Vollrath, from Department of Zoology, University of Aarhus.

The Network on "Silk: Properties and Production" investigates the structure and fabrication process of spider silks, focusing on: zoology; biochemistry, for composition of the materials; biophysics, for the mechanical structure of the materials; biotechnology, to examine cloning techniques for fabricating natural and artificial silk; material science, to study mechanical properties of polymers; biometrics, for production processes.

The dossier contains: Network proposal and research assessments; Fritz Vollrath’s CV; correspondence on the establishment of the Network and on the management of the Network. It contains documents concerning workshops and meetings:
Workshop, held in Oxford, on 15-18 April 1999: participants, programme, correspondence; report of the meeting of ESF-PESC working group on Spider Silk, Oxford, 18 Nov 1997.
First Coordination Committee meeting, held in Oxford, on 15 April 1999: minutes.
Workshop held in Obernai, France, on 19-22 Oct 2000 and second meeting of the Coordination Committee, held Obernai, on 22 Oct 2000: agenda, list of participants and minutes of the meeting; programme and abstracts of the workshop.
Workshop on "Assembly, structure and properties of fibrous proteins with emphasis on silk" held in Como, on 19-21 Oct 2001: programme and abstract.
Workshop held in Lyon, on 21-23 June 2002: programme, list of participants.

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