Scott L. Gardner is curator of Parasitology and Director of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, Division of Parasitology in the University of Nebraska State Museum. He finished his undergraduate degree at Oregon State University, obtained a Masters with Gerald D. Schmidt at the University of Northern Colorado, and received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico where he studied parasites of ctenomyid rodents in South America. Working in field-parasitology and collections-based research for his whole career, Scott first began work in the field in Oregon where he studied the parasite fauna of the mammals on his family farm – he published the results of this research while he was studying for his master's degree. His current research aims to discover and describe global parasite biodiversity before it is gone. Recent published work includes an edited textbook of parasitology (Concepts in Animal Parasitology – this will be published free, on-line for students), studies of geographic distribution parasites in the HWML museum collections using ecological niche modeling, four new species of mammals from Bolivia, new species of tapeworms, trematodes, nematodes, mites, and coccidians from mammals from Mongolia, Bolivia, and even Nebraska.​