 • The University of Notre Dame was chosen in large part because the co-inventor of the PiggyBac transposon system, Dr. Malcom Fraser was in residence there.This transposon was utilized by Kraig Labs and the University of Notre Dame to create the world’s first transgenic silkworm producing recombinant spider silk.This work was subsequently the subject of a peer review article in the Publication of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).