Faculty Bio

Eric J. Gangloff

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Education

• B.A., Cornell University
• M.A., University of Denver
• Ph.D., Iowa State University

About

Eric Gangloff's research addresses the big question of how organisms will respond to this rapidly changing world. With a special focus on reptiles and amphibians, his work utilizes an integrative approach that combines field observations, controlled lab experiments, and molecular techniques to identify the mechanisms that allow – or limit – the success of individuals and populations. For example, recent work examines how temperature and oxygen availability interact to affect the physiology, performance, and reproduction of the common wall lizard in Europe. He also continues work on a fascinating system of garter snake populations in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, examining how physiology, behavior, and immune function covary with life-history traits. Here in Ohio, he is beginning work as part of a broad network of researchers to investigate how individual variation in behavior and physiology can scale up to affect population dynamics and species distributions in the widespread red-backed salamander. Most recently, the lab has focused on established populations of the common wall lizard here in Ohio. This work has recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "BRC-BIO: Success in the Anthropocene: Evolutionary Ecology of the Common Wall Lizard in Ohio" (read the public abstract here.) 

His work is highly collaborative, including partnerships with researchers from France especially, as well as Canada, Argentina, Portugal, Australia, and across the U.S.

Lab Website: https://glare-owu.wixsite.com/glare/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/eric-gangloff.bsky.social

Selected Recent Publications

• Spears, S+, C Pettit+, S Berkowitz, S Collier, C Colwell+, EH Livingston+, W McQueen+, PL Vaughn+, BL Bodensteiner, V Leos-Barajas, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Lizards in the wind: The impact of wind on the thermoregulation of the common wall lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology 121: 103855. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103855
• Head, A+, A Amer+, EG Foster+, L Fraire+, EH Livingston+, MM Moore+, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Caudal regeneration in the invasive Common Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768), in Ohio, USA, with a report of a rare tail trifurcation. Herpetology Notes. Link to PDF
• Alujevic, K, LA Bakewell, I Clifton, C Cox, LO Frishkoff, EJ Gangloff, G Garcia-Costoya, M Gifford, M Glenwinkel, SA Gulati, A Head+, M Miles, C Petit+, CM Watson, KL Wuthrich, M Logan. 2024. 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. Journal of Thermal Biology 119: 103762. doi: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2023.103762
• Head, A+, PL Vaughn+, EH Livingston+, C Colwell+, MM Muñoz, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Let's include the ladies: Do morphology-performance relationships vary between sexes in lizards? Journal of Experimental Biology 227: jeb248014. doi: 10.1242/jeb.248014 
• Perry, C, T Sarraude, M Billet, E Minot, EJ Gangloff, F Aubret. 2024. Sex-dependent shifts in body size and condition along replicated elevational gradients in a montane coloniser, the Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis). Oecologia. doi: 10.1007/s00442-024-05634-8
• Moore, MM+, EG Foster+, A Amer+, L Fraire+, A Head+, A Blanchette, AR Gunderson, SJ Hankison, EJ Gangloff. 2024. Urban wall lizards are resilient to high levels of blood lead. Environmental Research 264: 120248. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120248
• Gangloff, EJ, NB Greenberg. 2023. Biology of Stress. Pp 93-142 In Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles, 2nd Ed. Warwick, C, PC Arena, GM Burghardt. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86012-7
• Vaughn+, PL, C Colwell+, E Livingston+, W McQueen+, C Pettit+, S Spears+, L Tuhela, EJ Gangloff. 2023. Climbing and clinging of urban lizards are differentially affected by morphology, temperature, and substrate. Integrative Organismal Biology 5: obad006. doi: 10.1093/iob/obad006
• Amer, A+, S Spears+, PL Vaughn+, C Colwell+, EH Livingston+, W McQueen+, A Schill+, D Reichard, EJ Gangloff*, KM Brock*. Physiological phenotypes differ among color morphs in introduced populations of the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis. Integrative Zoology 19: 505-523. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12775 *Co-senior author
• Palacios, MG, AM Bronikowski, A Amer+, EJ Gangloff. Transgenerational effects of maternal corticosterone across early life in a viviparous snake. 2022. General and Comparative Endocrinology 331: 114162. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114162 +Mentored OWU student
• Hankison, S, EJ Gangloff, B Fry, A Arnold, AJ Lashway, JM Betts, SD Otap, K Walter, MY Juergens, A Crawford. 2022. Effects of reliance on stored sperm on reproduction in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna. Journal of Fish Biology 101:1628-1633. doi: 10.1111/jfb.15228