Dr. Maydianne Andrade is a Jamaican-born ecologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto, Scarborough who has specialised in the study of the mating habits of spiders. She was born in Kingston but migrated with her family to Canada at an early age. She did her B.Sc. at the Simon Fraser University, her M.Sc. in zoology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga and earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University investigating "Sexual selection and male mating behavior in a cannibalistic spider". Her research at the University of Toronto focuses on understanding how the reproductive behaviors of males and females evolve through the interaction of sexual and natural selection in different ecological contexts, and how this shapes individual phenotypes and population-level characteristics. She was named one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science Magazine in 2005 and was the 2021 Carleton University's Discovery Lecturer. Andrade is the co-founder and president of the Canadian Black Scientists Network, and recently led the group to host a virtual conference, called BE‑STEMM 2022, to highlight Black Canadians in STEM.
Dr. Maydienne Andrade
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Lecturer - University of Toronto
Jamaica
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