Megan Paustian
Ph.D. student, BEES Program

E-mail: mpaustia@umd.edu
Phone: 240-350-6388
Fax: 301-314-9290
Web: http://www.bees.umd.edu/students/paustian.html
Mail: Department of Entomology * 4112 Plant Sciences Building * University of Maryland * College Park, MD 20742-4454
 
 
Research Interests
I am interested in the ecology, invasion biology, and phylogeny of terrestrial slugs, particularly of the family Philomycidae and other poorly-known taxa. For my dissertation research, I am investigating how competition between non-native Arionid slugs and native Philomycid slugs may negatively impact Philomycid populations. I am seeking to quantify the relative importance of the resources involved in conflict, determining the interindividual mechanisms of competition, and establishing how important habitat factors may interact with competition.
 
 
Education
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ph.D. candidate, BEES program (Biology, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics). (Sept. 2004 to present; advanced to doctoral candidacy May 22, 2007)

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
B.A. in Biology, concentration in Environmental Science, summa cum laude (Sept. 2000 to May 2004)
 
 

Awards and Recognition

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award – UMD award for attending conferences (summer 2009)

Entomology Student Organization Travel Award (summer 2009)

Conchologists of America Grant to Malacology (summer 2008)

Ilene H. Nagel Travel Grant – UMD award for academic travel (summer 2005)

Darwin scholarship - UMD award for biology graduate students (fall 2004 - fall 2006)

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in the Sciences (spring 2003)

 

Teaching

Principles of Biology II , University of Maryland (fall 2005 – fall 2008)

Principles of Biology I, University of Maryland (fall 2004 - spring 2005)

 

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