Meet the SFU researcher hoping to put a friendly face on spiders
Mornings with Simi
English - May 10, 2019 20:46 - 15 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness News News Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
They’re a spooky staple of Halloween, and one of the creepy critters often cited among the scariest, but that’s not stopping one SFU researcher from studying spiders. Andreas Fischer has dedicated his career to learning about spiders, and runs a lab that houses more than 600 of them. And if you’re an SFU student, you might want to close your eyes for this part: he collects them from the university’s hallways. Andreas joins Simi to dispel some common myths and unfounded fears about spiders at this year's Science Rendezvous.
Guest: Andreas Fischer
‘The Spider Guy’
SFU PhD student
They’re a spooky staple of Halloween, and one of the creepy critters often cited among the scariest, but that’s not stopping one SFU researcher from studying spiders. Andreas Fischer has dedicated his career to learning about spiders, and runs a lab that houses more than 600 of them. And if you’re an SFU student, you might want to close your eyes for this part: he collects them from the university’s hallways. Andreas joins Simi to dispel some common myths and unfounded fears about spiders at this year's Science Rendezvous.
Guest: Andreas Fischer
‘The Spider Guy’
SFU PhD student