Maydianne andrade timeline photos

DPES Committees.

  • 'Now is the time': Maydianne Andrade, a professor of evolutionary biology at U of T Scarborough, on elevating Black people in STEMM.
  • Andrade is sitting on a train from Toronto to Ottawa thinking about succession planning.
  • Biography: Maydianne Andrade has a BSc from Simon Fraser University, an MSc from the University of Toronto Mississauga, and a PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior.
  • Professor Andrade has the world's largest captive population of black widow spiders and is ready to spill the secrets of the world of deadly spiders.

    • Andrade is sitting on a train from Toronto to Ottawa thinking about succession planning.!

    Maydianne Andrade

    Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist

    Maydianne Andrade is a Jamaican-born Canadian ecologist.

    She is known for her work on the mating habits of spiders, in particular spiders belonging to the Latrodectus species.[1] In 2007, she was named a Canadian Research Chair in Integrative Behavioural Ecology.[2]

    Early life and education

    Andrade was born in Kingston, Jamaica and immigrated with her parents to Vancouver, Canada when she was three years old.[3]

    Andrade earned her BSc in 1992 from Simon Fraser University before pursuing a MSc in zoology in 1995 from the University of Toronto at Mississauga.[3] Her MSc thesis was entitled "Mating behavior and constraints on reproductive success in a spider with male sexual sacrifice".[4] Andrade then gained her PhD from Cornell University in 2000 under the co-supervision of Stephen T.

    Emlen and Paul W. Sherman, investigating "Sexual selection and male mating behavior in