Mike Gardner

My lifelong fascination with lizards started when I saw bearded dragons sunning themselves in my backyard as a kid. I now work on lizard sociality including aspects of their genetics, their parasites and disease. Mostly I look at immune genes and how that affects social structure in Australian lizards such as gidgee skinks, sleepy lizards (bobtails!) and the endangered pygmy bluetongue lizards.

August 2016