Academic background

2024-	Postdoctoral fellow, University of Zurich
2020-2024	PhD student, University of Zurich
2015-2020	Integrated BS-MS, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India

Scholarships, Awards and Honours

2024	Swiss Zoological Society, Travel grant
2022	Promotor Foundation, UZH graduate student grant
2022	Claraz Foundation, UZH graduate student grant
2022	International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress, Travel grant
2022	European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Travel grant
2022	URPP Evolution in Action: From Genomes to Ecosystems, pilot study grant (Meena A, Perdigón Ferreira J, Lüpold S)
2020	Forschungskredit der Universität Zürich
2020-2023	Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
2015-2020	INSPIRE Scholarship by the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for pursuing undergraduate studies in the basic science

Publications

Meena A, Maggu K, De Nardo AN, Sbilordo SH & Lüpold S. 2024. Life stage-specific effects of heat stress on spermatogenesis and oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Thermal Biology 125: 104001. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.104001

Meena A, De Nardo AN, Maggu K, Sbilordo SH, Snook RR & Lüpold S. 2024. Fertility loss and recovery dynamics after repeated heat stress across life stages in male Drosophila melanogaster: Patterns and processes. Royal Society Open Science 11: 241082. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241082

Dougherty LR, ... Meena A et al. (44 authors). 2024. A systematic map of studies testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 5: e12303. doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12303

Narasimhan A, Jigisha, Kapila R, Meena A, Santhosh, Prasad NG. 2023 Consequences of adaptation to larval crowding on sexual and fecundity selection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36: 730-737. doi: 10.1111/jeb.14168

Ahlawat N, Maggu K, Jigisha, Arun MG, Meena A, Agarwala A & Prasad NG. 2022. No major cost of evolved survivorship in Drosophila melanogaster populations coevolving with Pseudomonas entomophila. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220532. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0532

Macartney EL, Zeender V, Meena A, De Nardo AN, Bonduriansky RJ & Lüpold S. 2021. Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 75: 2830-2841. doi: 10.1111/evo.14373

Meena A, Kumar AMV, Balamurali GS & Somanathan H. 2021. Visual detection thresholds in the Asian honeybee, Apis cerana. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 207: 553-560. doi: 10.1007/s00359-021-01496-0

Maggu K, Ahlawat N, Arun MG, Meena A & Prasad NG. 2021. Divergence of responses to variable socio-sexual environments in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster evolving under altered operational sex ratios. Evolution 75: 414-426. doi: 10.1111/evo.14138