5550439c-7ee5-46f8-97cc-d8dfac2b7fea Nezka Pfeifer Museum Curator Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Since 2018, Nezka Pfeifer has been the Museum Curator of the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where she develops interdisciplinary exhibitions and programs on botanically related subjects that feature Garden collections, the Garden’s global research initiatives, and commissions of contemporary artists to create site-specific artworks. Recent exhibitions have focused on the plants that make paper and musical instruments, and the Missouri innovation of grafting in the grape and wine industry. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f472b844-7ddb-47a1-95df-c5b44a2de58d Eugenia Geddes Da Filicaia PhD Student University of Bristol Bristol, UK Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION After studying first chemistry and then conservation of wall painting, and working as a conservator and lecturer, Eugenia Geddes da Filicaia is currently undertaking a PhD under the supervision of David Peggie and Richard Evershed. Her project, a collaboration between the scientific department at the National Gallery and the chemistry department at the University of Bristol, aims to apply advanced mass spectrometry techniques to the study of organic materials in art to aid the conservation of paintings. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference 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

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

098f8b7d-ac68-4b93-85a6-cbf0361c441e José Lazarte Luna Assistant Conservator The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION José Lazarte works primarily with European paintings of the 16th to the 18th centuries and American paintings, including works from colonial Latin America. José received a BA in Art Conservation (with a minor in studio arts) from the University of Delaware and an MA in Science from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Graduate Program in Art Conservation in 2016. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Team Presenter A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

f15ee3ad-b7ec-4960-a259-65fcc5974952 Rachel Popelka-Filcoff Rock Art Australia Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC, Australia Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff is the Rock Art Australia Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she leads archaeological science initiatives. Her laboratory integrates advanced characterisation, spectroscopic and statistical-driven approaches, in the areas of archaeological science and cultural heritage chemistry. Her research is to the first comprehensive integrative characterisation of Australian natural mineral pigments on cultural heritage materials by several analytical methods to answer questions about provenance and composition. Rachel holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Missouri as a National Science Foundation Research Fellow and completed a National Research Council postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

2f21ec7c-0b17-44a1-833c-61ff56208198 Rachel Winter Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Seminar Series - December 2023 Seminar Series Presenter The cause of much chagrin: using marine shagreen for the marine historical ecology of elasmobranchs Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

6a3a9648-84d7-479c-874d-a3cece996dfa Jennifer Mass Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage Science Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Prior to her tenure at Bard, Dr. Mass was the Director of the Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory at the Winterthur Museum and Gardens. She also taught conservation science at the University of Delaware M.S. Program in Art Conservation and at the SUNY College at Buffalo M.A. Program in Art Conservation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

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

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