Andrew Durso grew up catching snakes in North Carolina. He earned a B.S. in Ecology from the University of Georgia in 2009, an M.S. in Biology from Eastern Illinois University in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Utah State University in 2016. He worked as a postdoc at the Institute of Global Health in Geneva, Switzerland from 2018 to 2020. He is now an assistant professor and herpetologist at Florida Gulf Coast University. For more information about Andrew’s research, check out his website and view his current list of publications here.