23d95059-d0ac-4140-b352-db4794169f43 Tom Sakmar Richard M. & Isabel P. Furlaud Professor The Rockefeller University New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Tom Sakmar is a physician-scientist and molecular biologist who studies how drugs affect the function of cell surface receptors called GPCRs. He has developed a toolbox of drug-discovery technologies that are now being applied to search for genetic material in art and cultural objects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

b462e744-2cfb-435b-9836-08296ed19db5 Susan Gagliardi Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Emory University Art History Department Atlanta, GA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Susan E. Gagliardi is an associate professor of art history at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a core faculty member of Emory’s Institute of African Studies, and currently serves as director of graduate studies for Emory’s PhD program in art history. Her research and teaching focuses on the arts of Africa. She has spent a total of more than twenty-one months in Burkina Faso, where she has worked with power association leaders and other community members to study the organizations and their arts. She has also conducted archival and museum-based research in Africa, Europe, and North America. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

41dbb70e-1ab8-45b0-a037-525495f1dc15 Laura Allen Curator of Native American Art Montclaire Art Museum Montclair, NJ, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Laura J. Allen is an interdisciplinary scholar and the Curator of Native American Art at the Montclair Art Museum. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Bates College and an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center. Her research focuses on Northwest Coast Native material culture, particularly dress and textiles. She has supported the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Alaska Museum of the North, and other organizations in both cultural and scientific projects. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

70ef1c89-7d4f-4776-ac96-fa926941131d Daniella Berman Vice President Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION An art historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, Daniella Berman has a particular interest in artists’ materials and techniques. Having earned her B.A. at Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Dr. Berman has held positions at the National Gallery of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She has contributed to many exhibitions and publications, and is currently Vice President of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d86031bd-b787-4731-8218-54cd3d3e7fd5 Halina Piasecki New York University - Institute of Fine Arts New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Halina Piasecki (she/her) is a third-year objects conservation graduate student at the Conservation Center at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. Halina's background is in classical languages, art, and archaeology. Her special interests within objects conservation include Greek and Roman archaeological artifacts, composite decorative arts objects, and 15th - 18th century objects displayed in northern European kunstkammern. Halina has worked in conservation roles at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Chinese in America, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and the Central Park Conservancy. Halina has participated in three different archaeological excavations, and is especially interested in the ethical considerations at play in the extraction and preservation of archaeological cultural heritage from its burial context. She is also an artist working with diverse media, and in her free time she enjoys wheel throwing ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and classical goldsmithing. Halina has limited technical analytical experience and is excited to gain insight from the Art Bio Matters community. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - July 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - July 2024 How to identify organic residues preserved within the pipe bowls to investigate the object’s history and material evidence of modern opium smoking practices. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

ecb53a9d-44a7-4ead-8f96-5ff53d262b2d Camilla Jul Bastholm Head of Collection Storage and Curation The National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Experienced Conservator PhD with a strong history of working with museums and cultural heritage. Skilled in preservation of cultural heritage, research, indoor air, fungal analysis, preventive conservation, working environment, museum exhibitions, and disaster management of cultural heritage with focus on rescue and recover damaged cultural heritage due flooding, fires, and natural disasters related to climate change. ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - December 2024 Seminar Series Presenter When mould is a museum visitor – xerophilic fungal growth challenges environmental recommendations for heritage collections In the last decade, extensive fungal growth has developed in Danish museums parallel to climate change challenging occupational health and heritage preservation. The growth was unexpected as the museums controlled relative humidity below 60 %, according to international environmental recommendations for heritage collections. Only heritage artefacts were affected, there was no growth on building constructions, interior and museum boxes. A cross-sectional study using a multiple detection approach found that the culprits were extremophilic xerophilic fungal species able to grow at low relative humidity, which is most unusual for fungi. The study concluded that xerophilic fungal growth is nationally distributed and suggests these species as a novel contaminant in climate-controlled museum repositories. To safeguard occupational health and heritage preservation research in sustainable solutions, avoiding xerophilic growth in museum collections is most important. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

ca95c5cd-a176-4d12-a128-324656894eec Catherine Stephens Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Catherine H. Stephens, Ph.D., is the Sally and Michael Gordon Conservation Scientist at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, USA. Her work is focused on using analytical instrumentation, including mapping and handheld XRF, FTIR, SPME- and py- GCMS, MFT, and optical microscopy to inform conservation treatments, identify the composition of specific objects, study the environment around the art, and provide guidance for how to display and store MoMA’s collection. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

a07348cf-9e38-46b3-98da-d12c0e67b40f Tami Lasseter Clare Associate Professor Portland State University Portland, OR, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Tami Lasseter Clare is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Portland State University where she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses and is the Director of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Science Consortium, in partnership with five major museums in the region. With her undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral trainees, her research efforts center on developing new materials and diagnostic tools to prevent and understand the degradation of material cultural heritage, such as artwork and ethnographic materials. Her prior work experience includes post-doctoral work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Historic Preservation program. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter The Chilkat Dye Project Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6061b438-48ab-4fb5-8fd2-aa8b4ec6e2ce Ilaria Serafini Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research fellow Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution Maryland, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Ilaria Serafini received her Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the development of nanomaterials and new methodologies for the analysis of organic matrices in textiles, with a multi-technique approach. In her post doc also at Sapienza University, in the Analytical Chemistry group of Chemistry Department, worked on the development of analytical methods in LC-MS for the identification of diagnostic markers in complex natural matrices applied to the field of cultural heritage. Dr. Serafini is also the inventor of two patents, one in the field of cultural heritage, and is also the founder of the start-up Sapienza D-ART srl. In 2020, she was the winner of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship call, with a project on the development of new methodologies in the field of proteomics and dye analysis in extremely degraded archaeological artifacts, which took her for the last two years to the proteomics laboratory of the Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Ending the outgoing phase of the project in February 2024, Dr. Serafini took up her position as a Researcher Tenure track in the Department of Environmental Biology- Sapienza University in April 2024 and is working toward the conclusion of the Marie Curie project (January 2025). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Dyes and proteins analysis in a unique workflow: a new methodology for archaeological textiles Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Member Conversations - October 2024 Member Conversations Host Investigating Ancient Textiles - Where do you even start? How do you start investigating ancient textiles, when you are not even sure where to start? What kind of materials are they made from? Is there any information in those materials that would help identify a geographic place or date for the origin of the materials (if not the textiles themselves)? If the material is dyed--and many textile fragments are multi-colored--how could we test the dye? And, again, could the dye analysis give us any clues as to geography and chronology? Are there any tests or analytical procedures that can shed any light on the weaving or making process? If possible tests or procedures are known, how does one set up such tests? What is needed? Is sampling necessary? If so, what size would the samples need to be? What are the costs involved? Juliet and Ilaria will be holding an informal conversation touching on various topics of interest to both curators and scientists investigating ancient textiles. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

7790811f-5c50-47d6-95c0-a9156ca3cd44 Julie Arslanoglu Research Scientist Department of Scientific Research Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Julie Arslanoglu is a Research Scientist at the Met. She investigates paints, coatings, adhesives, and the organic materials found in artworks across all ages using spectroscopy (FTIR), mass-spectrometric (GC/MS, Py-GC/MS. MALDI, LCMS) and immunological techniques (ELISA), with emphasis on natural and synthetic polymer identification and degradation. Her research interests include interactions between pigments and binders, especially proteins, polysaccharides, lipids, and their mixtures. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Why Antibodies for Art Analysis? Materials from animal and plant sources (biological materials) have been used by artists to create all forms of artworks throughout time. The challenge to cultural heritage scientists is to provide meaningful and accurate information to curators, art historians, and conservators about the fats, lipids, gums, and proteins that are chemically changed by pigments and binder interactions. Antibodies offer one avenue for the investigation of proteins and polysaccharides. This presentation will describe the pros, cons, and future of this approach. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Minimally invasive proteomics analysis: Application to museum objects made of ivory and bone Co-authored with Caroline Tokarski. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2023 Organizer Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Organizer Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Organizer Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS Francesca Galluzzi, Stéphane Chaignepain, Julie Arslanoglu, Caroline Tokarski Hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry to elucidate reticulations, interactions and conformational changes of proteins in tempera paintings Little is known about structural alterations of proteins within the polymeric films of paints. For the first time, hydrogen‑deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) was implemented to explore the conformational alterations of proteins resulting from their interaction with inorganic pigments within the early stages of the paint film formation. Intact protein analysis and bottom-up electrospray-ionisation mass spectrometry strategies combined with progressively increasing deuterium incubation times were used to compare the protein structures of the model protein hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) extracted from newly dried non-pigmented films and newly dried films made from a freshly made mixture of HEWL with lead white pigment (2PbCO3 Pb(OH)2). The action of other pigments was also investigated, expanding the HDX study with a global approach to paint models of HEWL mixed with zinc white (ZnO), cinnabar (HgS) and red lead (Pb3O4) pigments. The results show structural modifications of HEWL induced by the interaction with the pigment metal ions during the paint formulation after drying and prior to ageing. Both the charge distribution of HEWL proteoforms, its oxidation rate and its deuterium absorption rate, were influenced by the pigment type, providing the first insights into the correlation of pigment type/metal cation to specific chemistries related to protein stability. Explore Julie Arslanoglu Cutting Through the Fat: Animal Species and Food Processing Techniques of Residues Found in Nineteenth-Century Edgefield Pottery As part of the exhibition, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, The Met’s Department of Scientific Research (DSR) investigated organic food residues found inside large nineteenth-century alkaline-glazed stoneware vessels from the Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. “Examining Storage Jars from the American South” describes the driving questions about the jars’ use and the users’ lifestyle. Investigations reported in “The Inside (and Outside) Scoop: Scientific Analysis of Food Residues Inside the Jars from Old Edgefield, South Carolina” established that the heterogeneous residues are mostly oily materials with solid materials of various unknown origins. We hoped to gain more information about the jars’ contents from these residues, but to do so we need the sophisticated tools and expertise of our collaborators through ARCHE. Explore