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Dr. Karis Baker is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. Her research focuses on conservation genetics, population genetics, and archaeological genetics, particularly in deer species. She leads an AHRC-funded project, “Dama International: Fallow Deer and European Society”, investigating the origins and movements of fallow deer through genetic analysis. This work integrates ancient and modern DNA data, collaborating with the Archaeology Department at the University of Nottingham. Her past research includes a PhD on British roe deer population genetics, addressing conservation challenges like bottlenecks and reintroductions.
Publications span topics such as fallow deer conservation, Pleistocene mammal demography, and prion protein variation in deer. She has contributed to interdisciplinary projects, including biomolecular analyses of historical deer populations in Roman Britain and Ireland. Her work bridges ecology, archaeology, and genetics, offering insights into human-animal interactions and biodiversity.
Dr. Baker’s research has been supported by grants like the AHRC project, and she actively publishes in journals such as Mammalian Biology, Molecular Ecology, and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. She maintains project links via Fallow Deer Project and Twitter @DeerProject.
