Sarah Scaturro Chief Conservator Cleveland Museum of Art Previous Next Cleveland, OH, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Sarah Scaturro is the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Previously, she was the Head of Costume Institute Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her training in textile and fashion conservation, curating, and history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2006. She is currently a PhD candidate at Bard Graduate Center, writing her dissertation on the professionalization of costume conservation. ​ ​ All members

Tami Lasseter Clare Associate Professor Portland State University Previous Next 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 ​ All members

Marilen Pool Senior Project Conservator Arizona State Museum Previous Next Tucson, AZ, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Marilen Pool is an objects conservator specializing in ethnographic and archaeological artifacts. She is the Senior Project Conservator at the Arizona State Museum and has worked on numerous collections projects there since 1997. Marilen also has a private conservation practice, Sonoran Art Conservation Services, in Tucson. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Arizona in the department of Arid Land Resource Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. ​ ​ All members

Annissa Malvoisin Post-doctoral fellow African Art Brooklyn Museum Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Annissa’s research specializes in Egyptology, Nubian archaeology, and Museum Studies. Her doctoral thesis investigates the ceramic production and trade industry during Meroitic Nubia and its potential far-reaching networks linking the Nile Valley to Iron Age West African cultures. She examines trade networks by identifying artistic similarities on pottery which she combines with piecing together the objects’ biography in order to better understand Nubian collections in North American museums. ​ ​ All members

David McFadden Retired; formerly Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections Museum of Arts & Design Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2018 David Revere McFadden served as Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections at the Museum of Arts & Design from 1997 to 2013. McFadden has organized more than 120 exhibitions, including Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art, which brought together artists who use materials such as bones, insects, dead plants, fish, and seeds. ​ ​ All members

Charlotte Hale Conservator Sherman Fairchild Center for Paintings Conservation The Metropolitan Museum of Art Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2018 Charlotte Hale received her training in the conservation of paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and joined the Department of Paintings Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1987. Her publications include technical studies of works by Lorenzo Monaco, Giovanni Bellini, Velázquez, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat. ​ ​ All members

Anthony Caragiulo Assistant Director of Genomic Operations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics American Museum of Natural History Previous Next New York, NY, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 I'm the Assistant Director of the Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. My research focuses on population and conservation genetics to understand drivers of diversification, large-scale movements, and genetic adaptation primarily in carnivores and other large mammals. A major research interest of mine is using museum specimens in my research and applying genetic methods to identify the biological origins of museum specimens and artifacts. ​ ​ All members

Andrew Miranker Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Yale Previous Next New Haven, CT, USA MEMBER INFORMATION Team Presenter 2021 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. Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Read Abstract ​ All members

Patricia Raquel Moreira Assistant Professor School of Arts Portuguese Catholic University Previous Next Lisbon, Portugal MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 Patrícia Moreira holds a holds a PhD in Biotechnology by Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, member of Center for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR) and coordinates the CITAR's Focus Area of Heritage, Conservation and Restoration in UCP. She is interested in biotechnology and nanotechnology innovation for Cultural Heritage with emphasis on biodeterioration, sustainability, circular economy, citizen science and green conservation. ​ ​ All members

Eugenia Geddes Da Filicaia PhD Student University of Bristol Previous Next Bristol, UK MEMBER INFORMATION Participant 2021 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. ​ ​ All members