c7312ec3-29bb-4f14-9071-30e4758402cc Lauren Clark Research Assistant American Museum of Natural History New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Lauren Clark is the manager of the ancient biomolecules lab at the American Museum of Natural History. In this role, she supports researchers interested in paleogenomic and paleoproteomic techniques while maintaining a clean environment within the lab to limit contamination from human and bacterial sources. Lauren has broadly used genetic methods to determine the identification of archaeological and museological materials ranging from archaeological ungulates of the Rockies to cochineal beetles collected in the early 1900’s. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b7dc7019-3f88-4634-9ab0-21b0855675ac Trish Biers Curator Cambridge, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Trish is the Curatorial Manager of the Duckworth laboratory (biological anthropology) in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, and osteology. She is currently the Museum Representative, on the Board of Trustees, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and organises their Taskforce on the Trade and Sale of Human Remains. Her research interests include ancient and modern death work, osteoarchaeology and paleopathology, and museum studies focusing on the curation, ethics, and display of the dead. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Roundtable Discussion - August 2024 Roundtable Speaker Perceptions of Human Remains - Continued Following the overwhelming response to our March 27th session. We are pleased to announce an upcoming online Roundtable discussion on the topic of human remains in museums, cultural centers, and religious spaces. This session will offer an opportunity to examine the ongoing ethical and practical challenges surrounding the display, handling, storage, treatment, and scientific analysis of human remains. It will also provide a space to share diverse institutional experiences and foster thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. 
Our goal is to generate actionable insights that can support professionals navigating these responsibilities, and to encourage a respectful, informed approach to working with human remains in varied contexts. We welcome participants from across the field to join us for what promises to be a meaningful and necessary conversation. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

36586ecf-0bf2-41cc-9ba1-5f041cad1bf8 Angélica Isa-Adaniya Conservator Hamilton, ON, Canada Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Angélica Isa-Adaniya completed her MA studies in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum objects at the University of Durham (UK) in 2015. For several years, she worked for the Pachacamac Museum (Ministry of Culture of Peru) in Lima, Peru. She is a Community Board Member for Conserv and Website Coordinator for Art Bio Matters. She currently volunteers as the Vice Chair of the Talent and Participation Committee for the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC). She is also associated with The Research Center for Heritage Conservation in Lima. One of Angélica’s primary interests is sharing information about museum conservation with the wider public through a small website where she publishes articles, guides, and courses for non-specialists and students. She has an active social media presence promoting the wider visibility of heritage conservation on Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Website Coordinator Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f71c86d6-4c27-4395-ac43-b7069bed77ec Jesse Meyer President Pergamena Parchments & Leathers Inc. Montgomery, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Jesse Meyer hails from a long line of leather tanners extending back to at least 1550. He has been working at his family's tannery, Pergamena Parchments & Leathers Inc. since 1997. He has spent the last 30 years rediscovering and refining the process of parchment making as well as doing hands-on leather production. He's had the opportunity to consult on and/or produce parchment and leather for projects in fields such as fashion and leather goods, interior and furniture design, manuscript conservation, medieval studies and anthropology, sustainable farming and manufacturing and modern leather manufacture. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f3812ce4-f0d8-4bf8-b917-6640b2874be4 Andrew Miranker Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Yale New Haven, CT, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Andrew Miranker is a full professor with 25-years of experience running a federally funded biomedical basic research lab. He is also an active, hands-on experimentalist with personal projects and lab-based undergraduate teaching of his own design in DNA engineering. In 2013, his undergraduate course, two years in the making, was the first of its kind at Yale. This was an elective biology lab, jointly taught with conservators and Yale’s History of Art Department. Since that time, his contacts with conservators and curators at Yale’s museums, particularly the Yale University Art Gallery, has only increased. In 2017, he chose to spend his sabbatical in the laboratory of team member Aniko Bezur, 10 miles from his own lab, in the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. It was this daily contact with the Bezur lab while on his sabbatical that cemented his desire to contribute scholarship to this field. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d126ca55-65f9-45b0-a139-3da8129e8172 Catherine Matsen Scientist Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library University of Delaware Winterthur, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Catherine Matsen is a conservation scientist at Winterthur Museum’s Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory (SRAL). She performs analysis on all types of decorative arts in the museum collection using a variety of spectroscopic and chromatographic instrumental techniques. Catherine teaches in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), and guest lectures about the role of materials analysis in material culture research to students in the Winterthur Program in America Material Culture (WPAMC). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

5fc00f92-0e8d-4f8d-a84f-2333162b29d7 Sven Haakanson Jr., Ph.D. Curator of North American Anthropology, Burke Museum, Professor and Chair in Anthropology, University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Sven Haakanson Jr., Ph.D., is Sugpiaq from Old Harbor, Alaska. He is a Curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, Professor and Chair in Anthropology at the University of Washington. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence (2008), the ATALM Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Leadership Award (2012), and his work on the Angyaaq led it to be inducted into the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame (2020). He joined the University of Washington in 2013. He engages communities in cultural revitalization using material reconstruction as a form of scholarship and teaching. His projects have included the reconstruction of full-sized angyaaq traditional open boats from ethnographic models, as well as halibut hooks, masks, paddles, and traditional processing of bear gut into waterproof material for clothing. He has and continues to collaborate with the community of Akhiok at their Akhiok Kids camp since 2000. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Invited Speaker Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

800efaf4-c77f-4b43-8797-dea15dc3a90b Beate Fuecker Project Lead Institute of Art Technology and Conservation (IKK) Germanisches National museum Nuremberg, Germany Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Beate Fücker is currently head of a research project in art technology of the late medieval panel paintings from southern Germany that are part of the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. They have been investigating panel paintings for the last 8 years, so far resulting in two comprehensive collection catalogues. The ongoing serial examination of all panels follows the exact same scheme and involves radiography, infrared imaging, UV-fluorescence-photography, X-ray fluorescence analysis, wood species analysis, and microscopic examination as well as sampling and dendrochronology in selected cases. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Animal tendon on late medieval wooden artefacts – Problems of Analysis and Questions of historic Preparation of Tendon Material Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

cd051f34-32be-4d17-bbc8-9b4b0915128c Ahmed Tarek Head of Human remains Laboratory Conservation Specialist The Grand Egyptian Museum Giza District, Giza Governorate, Egypt Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ahmed Tarek has Ph.D. & M.S. from Conservation Department, Cairo University. He is Head of the Human Remains Laboratory & Conservation Specialist of Organic Materials at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM CC). He is interested in materials & conservation science; manufacturing techniques of archaeological objects; analysis of deterioration and documentation. Currently, he has started a postdoctoral (Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Fellowship, Objects Conservation) from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f1a5d9cc-1d2e-4bb2-97e3-daaa1b04d5a4 Theanne Schiros Associate Professor, Dept. of Math and Science Fashion Institute of Technology Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Theanne Schiros, PhD is an educator, scientist and National Geographic Explorer, whose research focuses on development of regenerative, high performance materials for a circular economy, including renewable energy technology and biotextiles. She is an Associate Professor at FIT and a Research Scientist at Columbia University, and a co-founder and CSO of Werewool, an early stage startup creating biodegradable textile fibers with DNA-programmed color and performance provided by engineered proteins. Her work has received international recognition, including the 2023 National Geographic Wayfinder Award, and the 2022 Microfiber Innovation Challenge and the 2020 H&M Foundation Global Change Awards (Werewool), and the 2017 National Geographic Chasing Genius Award (KeelLabs), as well as international museum exhibitions of a microbial bioleather innovation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS