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

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

6cc21d15-cc42-4899-b231-b24faa352376 Miriam-Helene Rudd Graduate Student Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Miriam-Helene Rudd is a fellow in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, Class of 2024, majoring in objects and minoring in textiles. She graduated from the University of Delaware (2021) with majors in Art History and Art Conservation and minors in History and Fashion History & Culture. Miriam-Helene is currently at the National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.) and looks forward to her third-year placement at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2023 Graduate Student Assistant Non-Destructive Analysis of Vegetable Leather Tannins: Viable or Fallible? Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

55886bdd-e849-487d-aa23-fb0e7198a8bf Hwai-ling Yeh-Lewis Senior Collections Manager Asian Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Hwai-ling Yeh-Lewis oversees the storage and care of over 37,000 works in the Asian Art collection. This includes all administration procedures related to acquisitions, incoming and outgoing loans, the collection database, exhibitions, and collection inventory. She also manages internal and external requests for access to the collections, and works with the collections team to facilitate gallery installations and implement the highest standards for collection care. She received her MS in education from Indiana University. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

d48de370-e1af-4ffc-87a6-cce8add2baeb Ellen Pearlstein Professor The American Wing UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural HeritageNew York Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ellen Pearlstein is a professor of Cultural Heritage Conservation at UCLA/Getty. She incorporates Indigenous instruction into graduate conservation education. Ellen is Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation, a Keck Prize awardee, and recent recipient of a Rome Prize. She is completing the upcoming Conservation and Stewardship of Indigenous Collections: Changes and Transformations, in the GCI’s Readings in Conservation series. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

c80cf3ea-88c8-4da6-a9de-f3bced6cde12 Matt Cushman Conservator of Paintings/Affiliated Assistant Professor Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Wilmington, DE, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Matt Cushman is a paintings conservator and conservation educator. His research interests include cleaning technologies and novel treatments for paintings and decorative surfaces. Prior to joining Winterthur, Matt held positions at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, the Worcester Art Museum, and Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

9890d064-4b15-49f9-935c-ab92c607478a Gregory Dale Smith Otto N. Frenzel III Senior Conservation Scientist Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields Indianapolis, IN, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Smith designed, outfitted, and now operates the conservation science laboratory at the IMA where he conducts technical studies of the museum’s collections. His research interests include undergraduate education at the Arts-Science interface, assessing pollution off-gassing of museum construction materials, and understanding the chemical degradation of artists’ materials. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

73bf3725-2373-43b3-ad24-c5becf03e24f Chongwen Liu PhD student University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Chongwen Liu is a Ph.D. student at the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Material Culture. His research interests focus on the development of antifouling materials for underwater cultural heritage as well as the analysis of lacquer materials through a multi-analytical approach. In the meantime, he is also learning and seeking opportunities for the possible application of artificial intelligence to assist conservation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Graduate Student Assistant AI-assisted classification of microorganism strains on paper-based cultural relics Co-authored with Chenshu Liu and Allison Wall. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

97b3ac56-6dcf-4485-903b-58cc80551690 Asher Newsome Research Physical Scientist Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute Suitland-Silver Hill, MD, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION G. Asher Newsome received his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2009, where he designed new instrumentation and methods for ion trap mass spectrometry. Since joining the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute in 2017, he has been particularly focused on adapting ambient ionization methods to cultural heritage analysis. His research places special consideration on minimizing sample damage and analyzing objects too physically large for standard methods. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Non-proximate Ambient Mass Spectrometry Sampling of Large, Intact Cultural Heritage Objects Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

22931b07-df48-4bbf-87de-0cbb857b34c8 Stepanka Kuckova Associate Professor University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague Prague, Czechia Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Assoc. Prof. Stepanka Kuckova, Ph.D., is the Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Applied Proteomics at the University of Chemistry and Technology. She works also at the Faculty of Education at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. 19 years ago, as the first in the world her group has explored the utilization of mass spectrometry for the protein identification in insoluble matrices (artworks, mortars, bones). Authored 52 publications at WOS with more than 1100 citations. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Proteomic analysis of blood coatings and determination of the animal species origin of blood Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS