CURRENT POSITION
2022 – Associate Specialist/ Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
PREVIOUS POSITION
2021 – 2022 Faculty of Natural Sciences at AIMS Community College
EDUCATION
2016 – 2022 University of California, Merced: Ph.D. in Quantitative & Systems Biology
2013 – 2016 Purdue University: M.S. in Biology
2009 – 2013 PES University: B.E in Biotechnology
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, and AWARDS
2021 Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship ($1,000)
2021 QSB Remote Teaching and Research Fellowship ($1,000)
2021 Grad Slam runner up – Click here for link.
2021 Spring QSB Virtual Conference Award ($200)
2021 GROW Fellowship ($1,000)
2020 GROW Fellowship ($2,000)
2020 SNS Dean’s Fellowship ($3,506)
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student of The Year Award
2019 Southern California Edison Fellowship ($9,800)
2018 Dr. Donald and Effie Godbold Fellowship ($1,000)
2018 Outstanding Women’s Award
2017 Graduate Student Opportunity Program ($42,345)
2016 Quantitative & Systems Biology Graduate Group Recruitment Fellowship ($5,000)
2016 Southern California Edison Recruitment Fellowship ($4,000)
2015 Graduate Research Award, Purdue University, USA ($750)
2015, 2014 Graduate Aide, Purdue University, USA
2013 Academic Achievement Award, University of Florida, USA
2012 Student Assistantship Program Award, PES University, India
Recurrent Fellowships
2017, 2020, 2021 QSB Summer Research Fellowship ($6,500)
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Consecutive Distinction Awards for academic performance,
PES University, India
PUBLICATIONS
Megha Suswaram*, U. Bhat, J.D. Yeakel. Rising above the noise: The influence of population dynamics on the evolution of acoustic signaling. (in review) Evolution – biorxiv
Megha Suswaram*, J.D. Yeakel, C. Gokhale. Parasitoid pressures and silence evolution (in review) Proceedings of the Royal Society B – biorxiv
D. Nandi, Megha Suswaram* and R. Balakrishnan. A sensory ecological perspective on mate sampling strategies using simulation models and an empirical test. (2017) biorxiv
Megha Suswaram*, C. Creighton, M. Belk. Does communal breeding promote an increase in social immunity in burying beetles? A test case with Nicrophorus defodiens. (2016) Purdue University Press biorxiv
CONFERENCES
Virtual Stand Alone Conference of The American Society of Naturalists – 2021
Gordon Research Conference on Speciation (GRC) – 2019, Ventura, CA
Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation (GRS) – 2019, Ventura, CA
Northern California Computational Biology (NCCB) – 2018, University of California, San Francisco
Northern California Computational Biology (NCCB) – 2017, University of California, Santa Cruz
Evolution – 2017, Portland, Oregon
WORKSHOPS
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics – 2017, Friday Harbor, WA
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