304a5ef1-2c89-4c23-b79c-fb0eef4c9fae Marilen Pool Senior Project Conservator Arizona State Museum Tucson, AZ, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Marilen Pool is an objects conservator specializing in ethnographic and archaeological artifacts. She is the Senior Project Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and has worked on numerous collections projects there since 1997. Marilen also has a private conservation practice, Sonoran Art Conservation Services, in Tucson. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Arizona in the department of Arid Land Resource Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

07b1ac96-9646-44af-ace5-1f006d36dac2 Jane Malcolm-Davies Associate Professor of Textile Analysis The GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Jane Malcolm-Davies is an associate professor of textile analysis at the University of Copenhagen where she is part of a biocodicology team studying parchment (see Beasts2Craft online), although her specialism is in the interdisciplinary study of non-woven fabrics. She is the leader of ‘Knitting in Early Modern Europe’ (see kemeresearch.com) – a project which gathers evidence for the development of knitting into an online collection with the aim of encouraging the scientific study of it via remote research tools. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Silk, stains and science of a knitted waistcoat: The lab is a foreign country but do they do things differently there? Co-authored with Beatrice Behlen and Paula Nabais. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Minimally invasive analysis: Fact or fantasy? The challenge of 14C dating Early Modern material Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - May 2023 Seminar Series Presenter Silk and Science: Collaborative research into a knitted waistcoat associated with Charles I Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b433fd19-5509-4daf-acc4-b504b90a4546 Sarah Fiddyment Postdoctoral Research Associate ERC Beasts to Craft Cambridge, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr Sarah Fiddyment received her BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2006, having completed three years of medical school and two years specialization in Biochemistry. Her MSc and subsequent PhD (awarded in 2011) were both completed at the same university, working in the field of proteomics in cardiovascular research. She moved to the University of York in 2012 after being awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellowship to focus on the protein analysis of parchments throughout history. During this time she developed a non-invasive sampling technique that has allowed her unprecedented access to thousands of parchment documents, helping to establish the emerging field of biocodicology. She was subsequently awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow continuing her biomolecular analysis of parchment through history. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Beasts 2 Craft ERC project at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter A labour of love: Biocodicological analysis of a medieval birthing girdle Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS Sarah Fiddyment, Matthew D. Teasdale, Jiří Vnouček, Élodie Lévêque, Annelise Binois & Matthew J. Collins So you want to do biocodicology? A field guide to the biological analysis of parchment Biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts, ofers the possibility of interrogating manuscripts in novel ways. Exploring the biological data associated to parchment documents will add a deeper level of understanding and interpretation to these invaluable objects, revealing information about book production, livestock economies, handling, conservation and the historic use of the object. As biotechnological methods continue to improve we hope that biocodicology will become a highly relevant discipline in manuscript studies, contributing an additional perspective to the current scholarship. We hope that this review will act as a catalyst enabling further interactions between the heritage science community, manuscript scholars, curators and conservators. Explore

543fc532-fc25-424f-b835-fc25afd2036b Caroline Shaver Graduate fellow Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Delaware, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Caroline Shaver is a graduate fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, and is currently completing an internship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She specializes in the conservation of decorated surfaces on furniture, frames, objects, and architectural woodwork. She has a particular interest in furthering her study of multilayered surface coatings such as lacquer, gilding, paints, and varnishes. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Graduate Student Assistant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

06fc19f3-0683-4776-a9bd-1761f34e0831 Laura Viñas Caron Postdoctoral researcher at the Globe Institute - University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Laura Viñas Caron is a postdoctoral researcher at the Globe Institute - University of Copenhagen - specialised in biomolecular archaeology. She combines ancient DNA, protein and isotope analysis to understand human-animal-environment interactions. Her work has revolved around the evolutionary history of domestic sheep, wool development and the use of other animal by-products such as leather, fur and parchment in past societies. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - October 2025 Seminar Series Presenter Clothomics as a new approach to the study of archaeological textiles and animal skins Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

8c77e21f-4489-48cd-b4fb-e8d6329a3b11 Patrick Dietemann Senior Researcher Doerner Institute Munich, Germany Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Patrick Dietemann studied chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, where he obtained a PhD in analytical chemistry with his thesis on the aging of natural resin varnishes on paintings. After three years at the Zentrallabor of the Bavarian State Office of Historic Monuments, he joined the Doerner Institut, Munich, in 2007, where he is responsible for the analysis of organic binders. His research interests are the identification of binding media of paintings and their degradation processes, but also includes the identification of organic materials on all kinds of objects of art and cultural heritage. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6a7ef71b-febc-439e-a10a-cd8b8091026b Jean Evans Chief Curator and Deputy Director; Research Associate Oriental Institute Museum University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Jean M. Evans, now at the Oriental Institute, was a member of the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1999–2008. Her research focuses on the religious material culture of Mesopotamia during the third millennium BC, and she is the author of The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple (Cambridge University Press, 2012). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

628f4ed0-91b5-44b6-be67-2f2575147a02 Emily Kaplan Conservator Acting Head of Conservation National Museum of the American Indian Washington, DC, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Emily Kaplan has been an objects conservator at the National Museum of the American Indian since 1994; she currently serves as Acting Head of Conservation. Her research interests include materiality and provenance studies of historic and archaeological museum collections. Emily is committed to collaborative practice in conservation through partnerships with Indigenous communities and artists. She works closely with her colleagues to manage the NMAI Conservation Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship program. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d7b149e2-8341-4312-92a4-0e7c4b6b6e54 Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, PhD is an assistant professor of epidemiology, infectious diseases and cell biology at SUNY Downstate's School of Public Health and College of Medicine, and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He applies evolutionary thinking to questions on the emergence and adaptation of microbial pathogens, their vectors, and reservoir species using genomics and bioinformatics. Organismal systems of interest include the Lyme disease system, RNA viruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, MRSA, the microbial ecological context of pathogen transmission and persistence, e.g. microbiomes of ticks and urban birds, and how the urban and industrial environment intensifies natural selection for antibiotic, metal, and pollutant resistance of microbial communities. His interest in ArtBio Matters is grounded on unlocking the research and discovery potential of archival specimens and the windows into the past cultural heritage can open for our understanding of historical interactions with biodiversity and emergence of infectious diseases. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

9b9f6866-0758-427b-8486-eb1f0b8badf5 Caroline Solazzo Museum Conservation Institute Smithsonian Institution Suitland, MD, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Solazzo has been a research scientist at MCI since 2017 and a research fellow since 2012. Her research is focused on the utilization of protein products in material culture and the development of proteomics methods for the analysis of ancient proteins in cultural heritage. She specializes in the characterization of keratin-based tissues and other textile fibers. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS