Marin Science Seminar presents:
“Creepy or Captivating: A Spider Scientist’s Perspective” with Trinity Walls, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 1, 2025; 7:30-8:30pm; Terra Linda High School Innovation Hub, San Rafael, California
Description: Modern media tend to portray spiders as eight-legged, multi-eyed terrors. With deeper exposure and open minds, can we come to see the beauty and benefits of our arachnid aquaintances? UC Berkeley scientist Trinity Walls thinks so. Trinity will share her journey to becoming an arachnologist (a spider scientist), and will discuss her research on the mating and communication behaviors of jumping spiders. Along the way she will address arachnophobia, and try to convey the beauty and benefits of spiders in our lives.
Bio: Trinity Walls is a PhD candidate at the University of California Berkeley studying how mate choice patterns shift over time and how these shifts affect hybridization. She is originally from North Carolina and has always been fascinated by spiders. The more she learned about them, the more she realized much of the widely circulated information about them was false and so she sought to study them herself. Trinity has studied orb-weavers in Puerto Rico, wolf spiders during her Masters in Ohio, and now jumping spiders at Berkeley. She is happiest when she is in the field searching for spiders, conversing with her lab members, and engaging in outreach activities.
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