Elizabeth Cleland Curator European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 At The Met since 2004, Elizabeth Cleland is curator of post-medieval European textiles. She has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles about historic European tapestries. She curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017), co-curating Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014) and Art at the Tudor Courts (2022). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Elke Cwiertnia Conservation Scientist Rathgen-Forschungslabor (Rathgen Research Laboratory) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museum) Previous Next All members Berlin, Germany MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Elke Cwiertnia is a conservation scientist working at the Rathgen-Forschungslabor (Rathgen Research Laboratory) in Berlin. She is specialised in the scientific analysis of cultural heritage objects, its contextualisation and improving conservation treatments. She holds a PhD in analytical science (Newcastle Upon Tyne) and a diploma in art technology, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (Dresden). Currently, she is working on projects investigating residues in Ancient Egyptian pottery and paint layers from the 19th century. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Annamaria Cucina PhD Student Chemical Sciences University of Catania, Italy Previous Next All members Catania, Italy MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Annamaria Cucina is a PhD student in Chemical Sciences, University of Catania working on Proteomics in Cultural Heritage. She works on the analysis of proteins and peptides in paintings, coatings but also archaeological remains via high resolution mass spectrometry. Proteomic analysis of samples from three Raphael Cartoons: Original material, repair or retouching? Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Ashley Coutu Research Fellow Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, UK Previous Next All members Oxford, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 Ashley Coutu is currently a Research Fellow at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her background is as an archaeological scientist, and she primarily uses techniques and methods from biology and organic chemistry to understand archaeological materials. Her specialism is the use of stable isotope, ancient DNA, and proteomics analyses as applied to archaeological and museum collections of organic materials. She is particularly interested in method development in relation to the needs of museums for display and the care of objects in terms of their conservation. The geographical focus of her work is sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore most of her research is on the ivory trade, past and present, and the use of ivory as a raw material for crafting objects. Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Matthew Collins The GLOBE Institute University of Copenhagen, Denmark Previous Next All members Copenhagen, Denmark MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 Matthew supports a team of postdoctoral and PhD students who are exploring the potential of parchment as a biomolecular archive. His background is almost as mixed as his research team, starting as a marine zoologist, followed by a Geology PhD at (Glasgow), postdoctoral positions in biochemistry and chemistry labs and a stint lecturing in environmental geochemistry before settling down as an archaeologist. ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Timothy Cleland Physical Scientist Smithsonian Institution Previous Next All members Washington, DC, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Speaker 2018 Dr. Cleland received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from North Carolina State University in 2012 where he developed paleoproteomic methods and applied them to variety of species. He applies mass spectrometry-based methods to detect proteins and characterize protein preservation from a variety of materials. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Characterize the Composition of Art Pieces Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Tami Lasseter Clare Associate Professor Portland State University Previous Next All members Portland, OR, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 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. The Chilkat Dye Project Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Lauren Clark Research Assistant American Museum of Natural History Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2023 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. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Yueh-Ting Chiu MuSE Intern, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Graduate Student, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University Previous Next All members New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Poster Presenter 2021 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. How It's Made: Emulsion (Organ) Tanned Leathers Read Abstract ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!

Sue Ann Chui Associate Conservator J. Paul Getty Museum Previous Next All members Los Angeles, CA, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Steering Committee 2018 At the Getty since 2005, Sue Ann Chui is a specialist in the conservation of panel paintings. Her areas of interest include Italian painting to 1600, wood technology, gilding, and X-radiography. She has presented and published on the materials and techniques of artists such as Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea del Sarto, and those from Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop. ​ ​ ⚠️ Member pages are undergoing improvements! Some features may not work today. Thank you for your patience!