Kieren Mitchell
The University of Adelaide, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Australia

Dr Kieren Mitchell is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. He specialises in ancient DNA analyses of extinct and non-model organisms. Examples include the Madagascan elephant birds (Aepyornis & Mullerornis), South American giant short-faced bears (Arctotherium) and glyptodonts (Doedicurus), and Pleistocene species of kangaroo (Simosthenurus & Protemnodon). His current projects focus on faunal species and communities from Australia, North America, and Eurasia.
Abstracts this author is a contributor to:
Ancient DNA from the North American flat-headed peccary reveals it’s phylogenetic position and a genetically diverse population prior to extinction (#650)
12:10 PM
Tahlia Perry
Poster session presentations Monday- Tuesday
Using ancient DNA from subfossil remains to characterise past population events (#484)
2:10 PM
Kieren J Mitchell
S32: The role of climate and environmental change in megafaunal extinctions (3/3) & 3 open session presentations