Maydianne andrade biography channel
Maydianne andrade biography channel
Maydianne andrade.
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