{"id":870,"date":"2014-06-04T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/?page_id=870"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:15:15","slug":"megan-d-gall-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/megangall\/people\/megan-d-gall-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan D. Gall, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Megan D. Gall<\/b>, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology<\/a>
Director of Neuroscience and Behavior<\/a>, Vassar College<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., Purdue University
M.S.  California State University, Long Beach
B.A. Pomona College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View my C.V. <\/a>
View my Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Banding birds with the lab, back in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I consider myself a teacher-scholar and I closely integrate my research and my teaching. I’ve taught a number of “classroom” courses including Introductory Biology, Introduction to Neuroscience and Behavior, Animal Physiology, Research Methods in Physiological Psychology, and senior seminars in Sensory Ecology, Animal Communication, and Neuroscience and Behavior.  I also teach intensives, including Biology in Board Games and Conversations with Scientists. Much of this teaching also occurs in my research lab and out at The Preserve<\/a> at Vassar, with my research students. My research lies in the fields of sensory ecology, physiology, and behavior, with a focus on auditory processing and acoustically-mediated behaviors in birds and frogs. I usually have 5-8 undergraduate students<\/a> working in my lab on projects ranging from bioacoustics<\/a> to comparative auditory processing<\/a> to neuroethology<\/a>. I include students in every aspect of the research process, from inception to publication.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Watching Black-capped chickadees at the Vassar Ecological Preserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We ask lots of questions in our lab. Why have different species evolved similar or different auditory systems? \u00a0What factors (like behavior, life history, habitat) drive the configuration of the auditory system? How have acoustically-mediated behaviors, like animal communication or prey localization, been impacted by the changes human have made to the world (anthropogenic change)? \u00a0How do natural and anthropogenic factors affect the production, transmission and reception of acoustic signals? To answer these questions my lab members and I use methods and techniques from fields ranging from ecology to physiology to molecular biology. Our work has been published<\/a> in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the Journal of Experimental Biology and the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan D. Gall, Ph.D.Professor of BiologyDirector of Neuroscience and Behavior, Vassar College Ph.D., Purdue University M.S.  California State University, Long Beach B.A. Pomona College View my C.V. View my Google Scholar Profile I consider myself a teacher-scholar and I closely integrate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7444,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-870","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/870\/revisions\/4733"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/sensoryecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}