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
 Jeshan Sivakumar |
 Minha Altaf |
 Zachery Chan |
 Susheen Mahmood |
 Shanuga Thavarajah |
 Krishan Singh |
 Ashley Cheung |
 Libertad Rojas |
 Shaun Sebastian |
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. |
 Justin Andrew |
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) |
 Ariela Kong |
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! |
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Jeshan Sivakumar |
 Fannie Yiu |
 Denzel Lodge |
 Isabella Wong |
Krishan Singh |
 Alexander Levesque |
Roinza Sawh |
Jeshan Sivakumar |
 Amira Namasivayam |
Abynanth Mathanaraj |
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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 | |||
 Naomi Akanmori |
Hossain Anayet |
 Jose Arriola |
Katherine Datuin |
| Aminah Khan |
 Florence Kwan |
Jady Liang |
 Sharanja Premachandran |
 Anupriya Singh |
 Nanziba Tasneem |
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Undergraduate Lab Assistants: 2017 Fall / 2018 Spring
 Yousef Safar |
Former Lab Manager
Yousef was in the lab for three years. He started as a volunteer assistant and quickly distinguished himself through his excellent ‘hands’, outstanding work ethic, and excellent eye for collecting spiders in the field. He helped with local field research, completed research projects with Luciana and, along with undergraduate collaborators (Laini and Vighnesh) complete an ambitious project on fitness effects of plasticity in a Japanese population of redback spiders (L. hasselti). He has presented his research at local and international conferences. Yousef has resigned as lab manager to pursue other experiences more aligned with his ultimate career goals. We wish him well, but will miss him in the lab! |
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 Shabitha Arumugarajah |
 Aneesah Bari |
 Emmanuel Chan |
 Ravin Dyal |
Ajay David |
 Mariaelena Guarrasi |
 Ariela Kong |
 Christopher Mahler |
 Anamaria Mihai |
 Mashiat Mimosa |
 Azeezah Jaffry |
 Rabea Nadeem |
 Mahak Rajawat |
 Allison Rupnaraine |
 Vishal Sharma |
Amira Namasivayam |
 Mecheala Pienczykowski |
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| High School Co-Op Students | |||
 Rayyan Wehbe |
 Tiffany Kazakis |
 Priya Thomas |
 Sakeenah Sulaiman |
Undergraduate Lab Assistants: 2017 Summer
 Amira Abozaid |
 Ridda Ahmed |
 Shabitha Arumugarajah |
 Aneesah Bari |
Mecheala Pienczykowski |
 Sharunan Ragunathan |
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Emmanuel Chan |
 Abel Delbalkew |
 Ravin Dyal |
Mariaelena Guarrasi |
Vishal Sharma |
Mahak Rajawat |
 Lynn Bui |
Azeezah Jafry |
Christopher Mahler |
 Ishara Mudiyansela |
 Heba Saleh |
Allison Rupnarain |
| High School Volunteer
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 Noor Hussain
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