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a28ee214-8adb-4220-a304-154a678abc13 Matthew Teasdale Research Associate McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Matthew graduated with a BSc in human genetics (2007) and an MRes in bioinformatics (2008) from Newcastle University. He then moved to Trinity College Dublin to complete a PhD in genetics (2013) as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie initial training network LeCHE, specialising in the analysis of ancient DNA. He then conducted further postdoctoral research in archaeogenetics at Trinity College Dublin as part of the ERC funded CodeX project. He then completed a 2-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship at the university of York. In 2019 Matthew joined the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research as a research associate as part of the Beasts to Craft project. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference 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

43af68bf-537d-4446-af05-9891ba8d2b97 Lisa Bruno Conservator Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator Brooklyn Museum New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lisa Bruno is the Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator at the Brooklyn Museum. She is an objects conservator by training with a MS in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum. Interests are in materials identification to understand the construction and deterioration of art materials. Past research projects analyzed materials used in ancient Egyptian mummification practices and currently the lab has begun a project to examine and identify materials used to construct Kachinas. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6c4a8996-d822-490e-afce-000294847089 Ann Wagner Curator of Decorative Arts Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library Winterthur, Delaware, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ann K. Wagner, curator of decorative arts, is responsible for approximately 20,000 objects of silver, metalware, and related composite materials such as lighting, firearms, and organics at Winterthur Museum in Delaware. She joined the curatorial staff immediately following her master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Ms. Wagner previously was the curatorial assistant for the department of European and American decorative arts at the Seattle Art Museum. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

5c632a7f-7fa5-43d5-a07e-f2e11b9a80ce Anna Riley Graduate student Bard Graduate Center New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Anna Riley is a researcher, artist, and teacher in Brooklyn, NY. She is interested in the history and anthropology of art and science. She studies glass history, as well as craft histories broadly, and has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Graduate Student Assistant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6769fb3b-e604-47ab-aa97-3b6118b3353c Lukas Simon Group Leader Computational Biology
Therapeutics Innovation Center Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lukas Simon is the Group leader in Computational Biology at the Therapeutic Innovation Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Simon earned his Ph.D. in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 before starting his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Computational Biology at the Helmholtz Research Centre in Munich, where he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. After this postdoctoral training, Lukas Simon was an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston in the Center for Precision Health. His research focuses on the development and application of data science to biomedical, molecular data. More specifically, his expertise includes bioinformatic analysis and computational modeling of next generation sequencing data such as (single-cell) RNA-sequencing. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Microbiome reveals history of human-interactions in the museum - a pilot project Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS Lukas M Simon [1], Cecilia Flocco [2], Franziska Burkart [2], Anika Methner [2], David Henke [3], Luise Rauer [4, 5 6], Christian L Müller [6], Johannes Vogel [7], Christiane Quaisser [7], Jörg Overmann 2, Stefan Simon [8] Microbial fingerprints reveal interaction between museum objects, curators, and visitors Microbial communities reside at the interface between humans and their environment. Whether the microbiome can be leveraged to gain information on human interaction with museum objects is unclear. To investigate this, we selected objects from the Museum für Naturkunde and the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, Germany, varying in material and size. Using swabs, we collected 126 samples from natural and cultural heritage objects, which were analyzed through 16S rRNA sequencing. By comparing the microbial composition of touched and untouched objects, we identified a microbial signature associated with human skin microbes. Applying this signature to cultural heritage objects, we identified areas with varying degrees of exposure to human contact on the Ishtar gate and Sam'al gate lions. Furthermore, we differentiated objects touched by two different individuals. Our findings demonstrate that the microbiome of museum objects provides insights into the level of human contact, crucial for conservation, heritage science, and potentially provenance research. Explore

5e0e7e70-df88-44b9-a6f7-2d4bd9ea6a23 Cynthia Schwarz Associate Conservator of Paintings Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION As a painting conservator, Cindy Schwarz focuses on the treatment of modern and contemporary paintings. She also co-teaches the course Art and Biomolecular Recognition and collaborates on the development of gecko-inspired micropillar structures for the cleaning of works of art. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6a7ee002-49fc-4f5f-8448-80cf32ad27fc Molly Warnock Director of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné Project Clyfford Still Museum Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Molly Warnock is an art historian and critic. The author of Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020) and Penser la Peinture: Simon Hantaï (Gallimard, 2012), and a frequent contributor to Artforum, she has also written about modern and contemporary art for publications including Art in America, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Tate Papers, Journal of Contemporary Painting, and nonsite.org, as well as in numerous US and European exhibition catalogues. In addition, Warnock has edited four volumes for the collection Transatlantique (ER Publishing), devoted to writings by and about contemporary artists. In December 2022, she was appointed Director of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné Project at the Clyfford Still Museum, in Denver. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter Oil paints from Simon Hantaï's studio: a multidisciplinary glimpse at the most creative periods of his artistic life Co-authored with Lauren Dalecky. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

07b77c3e-5908-48f1-83b0-28114bb0d93e John Wilson Founder and CEO ProtiFi Melville, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. John P. Wilson, Ph.D., is Founder and CEO of ProtiFi, an omics-solutions innovator with the goal to bring precision omics to life™ originally spun out of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Dr. Wilson has dedicated his career to developing new transformative technologies to increase the speed, robustness and reproducibility of omics analyses. Technologies include the S-Trap sample preparation system and SimpliFi, ProtiFi's cloud-based, intuitive omics analysis platform. He received his PhD from the Rockefeller University and postdoced at CSHL. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

84819949-f5cd-419d-8a7f-f31a2a881466 Jeremy Wain Hirschberg Physiology and Biophysics — Christopher Mason Lab Weill Cornell Medicine Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Jeremy Wain Hirschberg is a biologist working in the Mason Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine, conducting genomic and metagenomic research for space missions. Previously, Jeremy worked in diagnostics, developing novel lateral flow immunoassay technology for the detection of Covid- 19, influenza and other biological targets. Now, he aims to apply a biotechnological approach to address the challenges of the future in sending humans to space environments, and answer questions about the past in analyzing historically significant artifacts. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Identifying Binders in Mexican Lacquerware: A Tri-Partite Approach Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

22d3a359-b673-4325-a453-1b666b193817 Yueh-Ting Chiu MuSE Intern, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Graduate Student, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION As a MuSe summer intern at the metropolitan museum of art, Yueh-Ting Chiu is currently working alongside with the department of scientific research on characterization of different emulsion tanning methods involving animal organs. In a collaboration with Columbia University, her responsibilities involves analysis of the mechanical properties and surface analysis of the material. They will also be looking in the proteomics and lipidomic fingerprints left behind from the different emulsion techniques. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter How It's Made: Emulsion (Organ) Tanned Leathers Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS