Maydianne Andrade
Principal Investigator
BSc SFU, MSc U Toronto, PhD Cornell
E-mail: mandrade@utsc.utoronto.ca
ORCID Professional Profile: 0000-0002-2931-5378; CV Sept. 2016
Lab Management |
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Undergraduate Researchers |
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Lab Assistants |
Lab assistants |
Current Assistants |
Archives: Past Assistants |
Undergraduate Lab Assistants: 2021/2022
Gleny Guzman | |||
Archive
The Archives…Past assistants:
Archive: Undergraduate Researchers & Research Assistants (2015-2017) |
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![]() Vighnesh Sukhu |
Vighnesh was in the lab for a year, starting as a research assistant. He completed a one-term research course (BIOD95) in summer 2017, examining development and performance in widow spiders, and in the fall 2017, engaged in a continuation of this project, in a collaborative effort with Yousef and Laini, led by Luciana. |
![]() Laini Taylor |
Laini has been in the lab for over three years, she started as a lab assistant, then acted as a research assistant to PhD student Catherine Scott (working with one of three L. hesperus populations). Last year, Laini completed a full-year independent research project, BIOD98, examining how sperm load of male Phidippus clarus jumping spiders is related to morphological traits, and performance. She presented her work in an outstanding talk at the Animal Behavior meeting, held summer 2017 at UTSC. Although Laini has now graduated, she continues to do research in the lab (collaboration with Yousef and Vighnesh, led by Luciana). |
![]() Alexandra Dorison |
Alexandra has been in the lab for 3 years. She completed a BioB98 project, ‘shadowing’ PhD student Monica Mowery, during which she learned how female redback spiders show repeateable behaviours. Over the past 1.5 years, she completed a major research project with Monica , examining how cool temperatures affect spider development and behaviour in invasive and native populations. She presented her work in a poster at the Animal behaviour Conference in 2017 and was awarded an honourable mention in the student poster competition. Congrats Alexandra! Alexandra has now graduated and will be heading to graduate school in the Fall. |
Research AssistantJustin has been in the lab for over two years, first as a lab assistant, then completing a BIOB98 ‘research shadowing’ course with Monica. For the past 1.5 years he has been acting as a research assistant for Monica and Nishant. His help in acquiring life history data, running behavioural assays and making phenotypic measures of spiders has been invaluable. |
Archive: Lab Manager and Undergraduate Lab Assistants (2020-2021) |
Former Lab ManagerAriela was in the lab for four years. She started as a lab assistant for a year prior to starting as lab manager. Her excellent skills at the bench, strong work-ethic, excellent eye for spiders identification and rearing, as well as her impressive management skills were the key to built a strong, cohesive team among the lab assistants. In addition, her help the past year, ensuring that our research was viable even during the pandemic, was crucial. Ariela resigned as lab manager to pursue other experiences. We will miss her in the lab! |
![]() Roinza Sawh |
Abynanth Mathanaraj | ||
Kapilan Srieskandarajah
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Lauren Miller
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Nina Adamo
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Zual Mohmand
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Lab Assistant Volunteers | |||
Hossain Anayet | Katherine Datuin | ||
Aminah Khan | Jady Liang | ||
Undergraduate Lab Assistants: 2017 Fall / 2018 Spring
Undergraduate Lab Assistants: 2017 Summer
High School Volunteer
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