Annie Jessop

Congratulations Lauren!

A huge thank you to all of our collaborators involved in this project. It was a great team effort and I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with you all!

Hierarchical woven fibrillar structures in developing single gyroids in butterflies | PNAS Nature offers a remarkable diversity of nanomaterials that have extraordinary functional and structural properties. Intrinsic to nature is the impr...

Our new butterfly gyroid paper is out! We found that the gyroid nanostructure embedded within the wing scales of Parides sesostris butterflies develops in the pupa as a gyroid made up of entangled fibres.

Check out the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very happy to share that I have been awarded a #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the extravagant colours of peacock jumping spiders with @bodowilts.bsky.social at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Feeling very lucky indeed! Image courtesy of Jurgen Otto: www.peacockspider.org

Loved working on this collaboration with @jenkelley01.bsky.social and so happy to see it published. The three-dimensional appearance that these moths create on their flat wings is really remarkable and it was great fun characterising the effect.