Juliet Graver Istrabadi Curator of Ancient Art Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Juliet Graver Istrabadi is the Curator of Ancient Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (from 2009). She oversees a collection of 10,000 art objects that chronologically span a period from 10,000 BCE-1000 CE and geographically include the regions around the Mediterranean and the Near East/Middle East (areas in Africa, Asia, and Europe). Her research interests are broad, but a major area of focus is ancient jewelry. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Member Conversations - October 2024 Member Conversations Host Investigating Ancient Textiles - Where do you even start? How do you start investigating ancient textiles, when you are not even sure where to start? What kind of materials are they made from? Is there any information in those materials that would help identify a geographic place or date for the origin of the materials (if not the textiles themselves)? If the material is dyed--and many textile fragments are multi-colored--how could we test the dye? And, again, could the dye analysis give us any clues as to geography and chronology? Are there any tests or analytical procedures that can shed any light on the weaving or making process? If possible tests or procedures are known, how does one set up such tests? What is needed? Is sampling necessary? If so, what size would the samples need to be? What are the costs involved? Juliet and Ilaria will be holding an informal conversation touching on various topics of interest to both curators and scientists investigating ancient textiles. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Marguerite Mangin Senior Advisor The Richard Lounsbery Foundation New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Marguerite Mangin advises the Richard Lounsbery Foundation on both scientific projects and French-American efforts. Marguerite is also the Secretary and Project Coordinator for the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, overseeing an international group of scientists, anthropologists and art historians. Her lifelong passion for scientific research and education began in Paris, where she received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. She then spent 10 years at Yale University where she purified a new peptide hormone implicated in bone cancer, before joining The Rockefeller University as administrator. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Participant Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Amy Tjiong Associate Conservator American Museum of Natural History New York, New York, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Amy Tjiong is a trained conservator and a museum specialist at the American Museum of Natural History. Her professional interests include researching the properties and uses of cultural heritage materials and working to support community-led museum practices. She holds graduate degrees from New York University and Columbia University, and is currently enrolled in the Anthropology doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2023 Participant Art Bio Matters 2023 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Steering Committee Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM 2021 Team Presenter Art Bio Matters 2021 Virtual Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - March 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - March 2024 Question on alternative methods for shark tooth identification other than DNA analysis. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Thainá Vígio Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION ABM CONFERENCES ABM MEMBER EVENTS ABM Round Table - March 2024 Round Table Presenter ABM Round Table - March 2024 Question on fungicide methods outside of freezing and anoxia. Explore PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Gunnar Heydenreich Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences Technical University Cologne Cologne, Germany Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich is Professor for Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences / TH Köln. He studied paintings conservation and was awarded a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 1995 to 2009 he was head of paintings conservation at the Restaurierungszentrum in Düsseldorf. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Composition Conservation Historical Use Case Studies Ivory Similar to bone, ivory or dentin is comprised of a mineralized collagen matrix. 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. CITES Ivory Identification Guide This is the ivory ID bible. I use it every day in forensic casework. It's got a dichotomous key for determining species origin of ivory items seen in the trade. It's also been translated into Spanish (and some other languages I believe). Explore

David McFadden Retired; formerly Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections Museum of Arts & Design New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION 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. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2018 Participant Art Bio Matters 2018 Conference Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

Yueh-Ting Chiu MuSE Intern, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Graduate Student, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering Columbia University New York, NY, USA Previous Next All members MEMBER INFORMATION 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. ABM CONFERENCES ABM 2021 Poster Presenter How It's Made: Emulsion (Organ) Tanned Leathers Explore Full Abstract ABM MEMBER EVENTS PUBLICATIONS + PROJECTS

COMMUNITY Projects Projects Publications Member Events Members Publications PROJECTS Find collaborators. Share your ongoing work related to art, cultural history, scientific analysis, and art conservation. If you have a project to post, please email info@artbiomatters.org . Immaterial: Chia - Beyond superfoods and infomercials. Julie Arslanoglu For centuries, one of the most prized mediums of art at museums like The Met has been oil painting, a European tradition embodied by the so-called “Old Masters.” This is the story of how the oil of the chia seed—yes, the same one that’s a staple add-on for smoothies and acai bowls—and its origins in Mexico could help us look at oil painting and our world with fresh eyes. Explore Provenance determination of archaeological ochre by 16S rRNA sequencing microbial composition Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff [1], Claire E. Lenehan [2], Shanan S. Tobe [3] Data from 16S rRNA sequencing studies provide profiles of ochre sources that are both independent of and complementary to elemental and mineralogical analyses. We have demonstrated the clear discrimination between four geographically and mineralogically distinct Australian cultural ochre sites. This work demonstrates that trace microbial content in archaeological samples provide a yet unexploited source of information for provenance studies and outlines the possibilities towards the application to other culturally important geological materials. Explore Non-proximate Ambient Mass Spectrometry Sampling of Large, Intact Cultural Heritage Objects G. Asher Newsome [1], Kathleen Martin [2] Ambient mass spectrometry ion sources can sample from an intact object at atmospheric pressure, but they require the analyte to be close to an MS inlet and therefore cannot accommodate large objects. We constructed a non-proximate sampling system to thermally desorb analyte molecules from large, intact objects using a heated gas jet. Material is transferred 2 m to a custom-mounted direct analysis in real time (DART) ion source. Explore Decolonizing Crocodylian Collections: Developing a model system for bridging indigenous and Eurocentric perspectives on culturally and economically important species in museum holdings Evon Hekkala The project focuses on using archival research on cultural heritage collections containing crocodiles as a model to resurface and to integrate Indigenous historical archival narratives and to re-attribute knowledge from source and descendent communities. Explore Human bone points from Mesolithic Doggerland Joannes Dekker [1]; Virginie Sinet-Mathiot [2]; Merel Spithoven [3]; Bjorn Smit [4]; Arndt Wilcke [5]; Frido Welker [6,2]; Alexander Verpoorte [1]; and Marie Soressi [1,2] Raw material selection is the first step of an object’s use life and provides us valuable information on an artefact’s place in the larger toolkit. However, the species of osseous artefacts is often difficult to identify. By applying ZooMS we found evidence for the selection of human bone for the production of Mesolithic barbed points from Doggerland and hypothesise that this represents a deliberate and meaningful choice by the Mesolithic inhabitants of Doggerland. Explore Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloguing Winterthur’s Hard Matrices and Collagen-Based Organics Rosie Grayburn, Lara Kaplan, Katie Lagarde, Catherine Matsen, and Ann Wagner Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library was awarded an NEH grant to catalogue “overlooked organic” objects in the collection through physical identification and analytical research. This project focuses on cataloguing a group of objects with a high standard of accuracy, acquiring information through visual and scientific analysis, research, and expert consultation. The work is a collaboration between curatorial, conservation, and scientific staff to understand findings within the craft context for each object. Explore Beasts to Craft: Biocodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts Explore

RESOURCES Glossaries + Databases Glossaries + Databases Reference Materials Reference Materials Scientific Resources Scientific Resources Videos + Lectures Videos + Lectures Journals + Publications Journals + Publications Coming Soon Explore glossaries and literature databases related to art, cultural history, scientific analysis, and art conservation. GLOSSARIES + DATABASES AATA Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA): research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Explore Videos + Lectures ABM 2018 Glossary Art Bio Matters (ABM) 2018 Glossary: a short glossary of scientific analysis terms from the 2018 ABM conference. Explore Videos + Lectures AIC Wiki American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Wiki: compendia of working knowledge on materials and techniques used to preserve and treat works of art and historic artifacts, preventive care, research and analysis, work practices, and education. Explore Videos + Lectures AICCM Visual Glossary Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM) Visual Glossary: identify damage and deterioration by comparing it to glossary image and description. Explore Videos + Lectures BCIN Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN): bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. Explore Videos + Lectures BHA/RILA Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) / Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA): European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. Explore Videos + Lectures CAMEO Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO): a database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation. Explore Videos + Lectures CCI Notes Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) Notes: practical advice about issues and questions related to the care, handling and storage of cultural objects. Explore Videos + Lectures Genbank GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42). GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), and GenBank at NCBI. These three organizations exchange data on a daily basis. This database is paywalled, so we recommend collaboration with colleagues to access it. Explore Videos + Lectures Getty Research Portal Getty Research Portal: multilingual and multicultural art historical text catalog of complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. Explore Videos + Lectures Getty Vocabularies Getty Vocabularies: structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, art conservation, and bibliographic materials. Explore Videos + Lectures Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: the story of art and global culture through The Met collection. Explore Videos + Lectures MoMA Learning Glossary of Art Terms MoMA Learning Glossary of Art Terms: glossary explaining techniques, mediums, art movements, and other terms in the MoMA collection. Explore Videos + Lectures NGA Glossary of Instrumental Methods National Gallery of Art (NGA) Glossary of Instrumental Methods: glossary of chromatography, spectroscopy, and microscopy analytical techniques. Explore Videos + Lectures Painting Conservation Glossary Of Terms Smithsonian: Museum Conservation Institute Painting Conservation Glossary of Terms Explore Videos + Lectures Tropicos The Tropicos botanical data database links over 1.38M scientific names with over 6.96M specimens and over 1.78M digital images. The data include over 167K references from over 55.3K publications offered as a free service to the world’s scientific community. Explore Videos + Lectures