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Maydianne C. B. Andrade

Professor, CRC

BSc, Simon Fraser University
MSc, University of Toronto
PhD, Cornell

Phone
416-287-7425
Lab Phone
416-287-7124
Office
SW 551
Lab
SW 429
Email
maydianne.andrade@utoronto.ca

Prospective Students:

I am currently accepting MSc and PhD students. Interested applicants should send a CV, an unofficial transcript along with a cover letter summarizing their research interests, academic background, and skills. Please check my lab website for additional details.

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Research

We seek to understand

  1. how sexual selection, social behaviour, and ecological conditions affect the evolution of mating strategies and morphology.
  2. the mechanistic traits underlying fitness. We measure physiological and morphological correlates of competitive success, development, and endurance to provide tools and suggest processes critical to understanding behavioural and morphological evolution.

A peek behind the scenes at the research and teaching associated with Professor Maydianne Andrade’s lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough, home to one of the largest captive populations of black Widow spiders in the world.