Composition Conservation Historical Use Case Studies Bone Bone is made of a matrix of inorganic minerals (calcium and phosphate) and organic proteins. Nearly all protein in bone is collagen proteins, whose role is to form strong cellular structures. Previous Next Back to Materials Coming Soon We need you to develop new content for the ABM website. Please email info@artbiomatters.org or message in Slack if you are interested in building the ABM website.

Ludovico Geminiani PhD student Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy Como, Italy Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Ludovico Geminiani obtained his Master degree in Chemistry at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (Como, Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Laura Rampazzi, with the thesis “Analytical study of the materials of Japanese samurai armours”. He is actually attending the Ph.D. Program in Chemical and Environmental Sciences at the same university. His research project is focused on the decay behavior of Japanese artistic materials. He presented at international conferences about Heritage Science and published papers in international peer-review journals. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Poster Presenter Study on the formation of calcium oxalate on stone materials and on Japanese lacquer Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Richard Hark Conservation Scientist Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Team Presenter New Thoughts on Old Wood: Differentiation of Mahogany and Its Look-alikes Using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Co-authored with John Stuart Gordon. Read the Abstract. Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Erma Hermens Professor in Studio Practice and Technical Art History Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Erma Hermens is the Rijksmuseum Professor in studio practice and technical art history at the University of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum, Department of Conservation of Science, where she works with interdisciplinary teams, liaising between curators, conservators and scientists, combining art historical and contextual research of objects, their composite materials, and methods of making, with scientific analytical data. She is from March 2021-March 22, Visiting Porfessor at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice. Present projects CT-scanning for Art: from Images to Patterns (IMPACT4Art); Imaging, Identification and interpretation of Glass in Paint (I3Glassp); Down to the Ground: Colored grounds in Netherlandish 16th and 17th-century painting. She is presently writing a review report of the field of Technical Art History commissioned by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Fran Ritchie Conservator Harper's Ferry Center National Park Service Harpers Ferry, WV 25425, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Fran Ritchie is a conservator of objects at the Harpers Ferry Center of the National Park Service, a center that supports the preservation and conservation of park collections across all units. With a background working on organic materials in museums, Fran enjoys immersing herself in the natural world – while learning about and treating “dead stuff,” as well as observing living ecosystems. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

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

Dawn Kriss Associate Objects Conservator The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dawn Kriss is an associate objects conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She helps care for items in the Met’s Native America collections as well as works from the Ancient Americas, Oceania, and Africa. Dawn’s work has focused on understanding materials and technologies as they relate to use, creation, and item care, and she is passionate about professional and community collaboration within and outside of the Met. She received her degree from the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Composition Conservation Historical Use Case Studies Wood Wood is produced by the stems and roots of woody plants such as trees and shrubs. Structurally, wood is composed predominantly of cellulose polysacchharid fibers and lignin (a natural polymer chain). Previous Next Back to Materials Coming Soon We need you to develop new content for the ABM website. Please email info@artbiomatters.org or message in Slack if you are interested in building the ABM website.

Laura Cartechini Research Scientist Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM) – National Research Council (CNR) Milan, Padova, Perugia, ITALY Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Laura Cartechini received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Perugia in 1998. Her research activity is aimed at understanding the chemical and physical properties of art historical materials and relative degradation processes for diagnostic and conservation purposes. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Team Presenter Immunodetection of proteins in paint media by ELISA and IFM Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Rachel Mustalish Conservator Sherman Fairchild Center for Works on Paper and Photographic Conservation The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Rachel Mustalish received an M.A. in the History of Art and an Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She joined the paper conservation department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1998 and studies drawings and prints with specializations in European and American modernism, and international contemporary art. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS