University email: ntg20xbl@bangor.ac.uk
Personal email: antonio.gandini1911@gmail.com
Overview
Master by Research (MScRes) student in Biological Sciences at Bangor University, currently investigating the evolution of spitting cobras (genus Naja) through phylogenomics under the supervision of Dr Wolfgang Wüster and Dr Axel Barlow.
Graduated in Zoology with Herpetology (BSc) at Bangor University with a dissertation on the predation rates on Endangered populations of the meadow viper (Vipera ursinii) species complex under the supervision of Dr Wolfgang Wüster.
Qualifications
- BSc: BSC - Zoology with Herpetology
2020–2023
Research Interests
Currently investigating the evolutionary history of Cobras (genus Naja) through phylogenomics, with a focus on the evolution of Asian spitting cobras.
BSc thesis on using plasticine models to estimate the predation rates of multiple populations of the Endangered Meadow viper species complex (Vipera ursinii/Vipera graeca).
Publications
2025
- PublishedA reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile
Major, T., Jeffrey, L., Limia Russel, G., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Morgan, R., Marshall, B., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 5 Feb 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 2, p. e0310352 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2024
- PublishedA reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile
Major, T., Jeffrey, L., Limia Russel, G., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Morgan, R., Marshall, B. M., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 3 Sept 2024, BioRxiv, 29 p.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
2023
- PublishedMate today, gone tomorrow: male-on-female cannibalism in Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) in North Wales
Major, T., Bracegirdle, R., Gandini, A., Limia Russel, G., Pozzi, A., Morgan, R., Mulley, J. & Wüster, W., 17 Jan 2023, In: Herpetology Notes. 16, p. 51-54 4 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
- PublishedPredation of Vipera ammodytes by the Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus).
Gandini, A., 1 Dec 2021, In: Herpetological Bulletin. 158, 1 p., 46.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
2024
- XV Congresso Nazionale - Societas Herpetologica Italica (SHI)
21 Sep 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)