ABM 2021 MEETING
The virtual ABM 2021 meeting aims to bring together a balanced community of experts for a dynamic forum for exchange. The goal of the ABM 2021 meeting is to nurture and grow the community that was established in 2018. Key to the meeting is the development of an updated website, which will serve as a communication hub to identify connections between advanced scientific approaches (e.g., DNA, mass-spectrometry, and antibody-based) and open research questions, thereby fostering focused and mutually beneficial collaborations, as well as providing educational resources.
Laurence Douny
Research Associate
Humboldt University, Berlin

MEMBER INFORMATION
Laurence Douny is a social anthropologist and research associate at the Excellence cluster ‘Matters of Activity. Image Space Material’ at Humboldt University, Berlin. She specializes in the anthropology and history of materials and techniques with a focus on West African wild silks and natural dyes. She is the principal investigator of the project ‘West African wild silks techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s heritage of knowledge’ awarded by the Endangered Material Knowledge Program (EMKP) at The British Museum and funded by Arcadia.