Schedule – Art Bio Matters

Day 1 - September 22, 2021

Day 2 - September 23, 2021

Day 3 - September 24, 2021

Session 1: Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Focused Searches for Biological Materials
8:15 am - 8:30 am	Welcome

8:30 am - 9:15 am	A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) Aleksandra Popowich and Jose Lazarte Luna

9:15 am - 10:00 am	ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Matthew Collins, Christian Carøe, Alister Sutherland, Samuel Johns, and Tuuli Kasso

10:00 am - 10:45 am	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 1-1 A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) Aleksandra Popowich – Team Presenter From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies OF Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Patrick Dietemann – Team Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Susan Gagliardi – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Margaret Holben Ellis

	Room 1-2 ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Alister Sutherland – Team Presenter Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Rachel Popelka-Filcoff – Poster MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

	Room 1-3 A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) José Lazarte – Team Presenter Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project Lukas Simon – Poster MODERATOR: Erma Hermans

	Room 1-4 Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Katarzyna Anna Vargas – Team Presenter ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Matthew Collins – Team Presenter Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project Stefan Simon – Poster MODERATOR: Chris Mason

	Room 1-5 Rethinking Approaches to Museum Practices: Why People Matter Amy Tjiong – Invited Speaker ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Samuel Johns – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

	Room 1-6 Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo – Team Presenter Rethinking Approaches to Museum Practices: Why People Matter Patricia Norby – Invited Speaker MODERATOR: Frank Trujillo

	Room 1-7 The Chilkat Dye Project Ellen Carrlee – Team Presenter Minimally invasive analysis: Fact or fantasy? The challenge of 14C dating Early Modern material Laurie Waters – Poster Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Shanan Tobe – Poster MODERATOR: Julie Arslanoglu

Session 2: Discovering Hidden Biological Materials
10:45 am - 11:30 am	Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Rosie Grayburn, Lara Kaplan, and Ann Wagner

11:30 am - 12:15 pm	The Chilkat Dye Project Ellen Carrlee and Tami Lasseter Clare

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 2-1 Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Ann Wagner – Team Presenter From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Ophélie Ranquet – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

	Room 2-2 Reaching trace level protein detection to study archaeological artefacts and museum objects: new proteomics methods based on high resolution mass spectrometry Catherine Gilbert – Poster Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Lara Kaplan – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Chris Mason

	Room 2-3 Animal Tendon on Late Medieval Wooden Artefacts – Problems of Analysis and Questions of Historic Preparation of Tendon Material Beate Fuecker – Poster Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Rosie Ann Grayburn – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Margaret Holben Ellis

	Room 2-4 (1) Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project (2) The microbiome of a XIV century medieval codex: are microbes part of cultural heritage objects? Cecilia Flocco – Poster The Chilkat Dye Project Ellen Carrlee – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Erma Hermens

	Room 2-5 Minimally invasive analysis: Fact or fantasy? The challenge of 14C dating Early Modern material Jane Malcolm-Davies – Poster The Chilkat Dye Project Tami Lasseter Clare – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Frank Trujillo

	Room 2-6 A labour of love: Biocodicological analysis of a medieval birthing girdle Sarah Fiddyment – Poster How It’s Made: Emulsion (Organ) Tanned Leathers Yueh-Ting Chiu - Poster MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

	Room 2-7 Non-proximate Ambient Mass Spectrometry Sampling of Large, Intact Cultural Heritage Objects Asher Newsome – Poster Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Cecil Krarup Andersen – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Amy Tjiong

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Closing remarks and Logistics

Session 3: Unexpected Discoveries
8:05 am - 8:15 am	Updates and Reminders

8:15 am - 9:00 am	Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo and Cecil Krarup Andersen

9:00 am - 9:45 am	Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Élodie Lévêque and Matthew Teasdale

9:45 am - 10:30 am	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 3-1 Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Cecil Krarup Andersen – Team Presenter Hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry to elucidate reticulations, interactions and conformational changes of proteins in tempera paintings Francesca Galluzzi – Poster A labour of love: Biocodicological analysis of a medieval birthing girdle Sarah Fiddyment – Poster MODERATOR: Chris Mason

	Room 3-2 Proteomic analysis of samples from three Raphael Cartoons: Original material, repair or retouching? Annamaria Cucina – Poster Non-traditional materials in the ground layer of paintings from the Danish Golden Age identified via MS-based proteomics Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

	Room 3-3 Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Ashley Coutu – Poster Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Élodie Lévêque – Team Presenter Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art Laura Courto – Poster MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

	Room 3-4 Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project Lukas Simon – Poster Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Matthew Teasdale – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Julie Arslanoglu

	Room 3-5 ZooMS identifications of human and cervid barbed points from Mesolithic Doggerland Joannes Dekker – Poster Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Rachel Popelka-Filcoff – Poster MODERATOR: Amy Tjong

	Room 3-6 A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) José Lazarte – Team Presenter Unleashing top-down mass spectrometry in study of proteinaceous materials in museum objects: Method development using paint models Vaclav Krupicka – Poster MODERATOR: Frank Trujillo

	Room 3-7 A Tripartite Approach to Biomolecule Analysis for the Identification of Chia Oil in Paintings and Lacquerware from New Spain (Mexico) Aleksandra Popowich – Team Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Clara Granzotto – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Erma Hermens

Session 4: Seeing the Bigger Picture
10:30 am - 11:15 am	Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls Christopher Mason and Noam Mizrahi

11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Invited Speakers Patricia Norby and Amy Tjiong (Abstract)

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 4-1 Decolonizing Crocodylian Collections: Developing a model system for bridging Historical Indigenous and Eurocentric interpretations of culturally and economically important species in museum holdings Evon Hekkala – Poster Rethinking Approaches to Museum Practices: Why People Matter Patricia Norby – Invited Speaker MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

	Room 4-2 Rethinking Approaches to Museum Practices: Why People Matter Amy Tjiong – Invited Speaker Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Rosie Ann Grayburn – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Erma Hermens

	Room 4-3 Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls Christopher Mason – Team Presenter Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project Stefan Simon – Poster MODERATOR: Frank Trujillo

	Room 4-4 Counting Sheep: Proteomic Analysis (eZooMS) of Legal Documents from Medieval East Anglia Billie Males – Poster Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls Noam Mizrahi – Team Presenter DNA Barcoding of Northwest Coast Objects: A method for fostering reciprocal relationships between museums and communities Lauren Audi – Poster MODERATOR: Aleksandra Popowich

	Room 4-5 Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Andrew Miranker – Team Presenter Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Ann Wagner – Team Presenter Minimally invasive analysis: Fact or fantasy? The challenge of 14C dating Early Modern material Laurie Waters – Poster MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

	Room 4-6 Reaching trace level protein detection to study archaeological artefacts and museum objects: new proteomics methods based on high resolution mass spectrometry Catherine Gilbert – Poster Minimally invasive analysis: Fact or fantasy? The challenge of 14C dating Early Modern material Jane Malcolm-Davies – Poster MODERATOR: Margaret Holben Ellis

	Room 4-7 ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Alister Sutherland – Team Presenter Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Aniko Bezur – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Julie Arslanoglu

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Closing Remarks and Logistics

Session 5: New Insights: Why Biological Materials Matter
8:05 am - 8:15 am	Updates and Reminders

8:15 am - 9:00 am	From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Ophélie Ranquet and Patrick Dietemann

9:00 am - 9:45 am	Business Meeting

9:45 am - 10:30 am	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 5-1 From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Ophélie Ranquet – Team Presenter Unleashing top-down mass spectrometry in study of proteinaceous materials in museum objects: Method development using paint models Vaclav Krupicka – Poster MODERATOR: Erma Hermens

	Room 5-2 Hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry to elucidate reticulations, interactions and conformational changes of proteins in tempera paintings Francesca Galluzzi – Poster From egg tempera to oil painting – case studies OF Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli and the chemistry and microstructure of paints Patrick Dietemann – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Margaret Holben Ellis

	Room 5-3 Counting Sheep: Proteomic Analysis (eZooMS) of Legal Documents from Medieval East Anglia Billie Males – Poster How It’s Made: Emulsion (Organ) Tanned Leathers Yueh-Ting Chiu – Poster MODERATOR: Amy Tjiong

	Room 5-4 ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Matthew Collins – Team Presenter Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Matthew Teasdale – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Aleksandra Popowich

	Room 5-5 Animal Tendon on Late Medieval Wooden Artefacts – Problems of Analysis and Questions of Historic Preparation of Tendon Material Beate Fuecker – Poster Archaeomicrobiology: Method Development to “Fingerprint” Australian Cultural Ochre Using Microbial DNA Analysis Shanan Tobe – Poster MODERATOR: Chris Mason

	Room 5-6 ZooMS identifications of human and cervid barbed points from Mesolithic Doggerland Joannes Dekker – Poster Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art Laura Courto – Poster MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

	Room 5-7 Non-proximate Ambient Mass Spectrometry Sampling of Large, Intact Cultural Heritage Objects Asher Newsome – Poster The Chilkat Dye Project Tami Lasseter Clare – Team Presenter DNA Barcoding of Northwest Coast Objects: A method for fostering reciprocal relationships between museums and communities Lauren Audi – Poster MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

Session 6: Biological traces: building histories
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Aniko Bezur, Andrew Miranker, and Katarzyna Vargas

11:30 am - 12:15 am	Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Clara Granzotto and Susan Gagliardi

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Break into Chat Rooms
	Room 6-1 Decolonizing Crocodylian Collections: Developing a model system for bridging Historical Indigenous and Eurocentric interpretations of culturally and economically important species in museum holdings Evon Hekkala – Poster Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Susan Gagliardi – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Frank Trujillo

	Room 6-2 Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls Noam Mizrahi – Team Presenter Accretion, accumulation, encrustation? Reconciling scientific and curatorial perspectives when reporting on surface materials on African sculptures Clara Granzotto – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Amy Tjiong

	Room 6-3 Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Aniko Bezur – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Erma Hermens

	Room 6-4 Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Andrew Miranker – Team Presenter Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls Christopher Mason – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Constantine Petridis

	Room 6-5 Life histories of ivory objects in museum collections Ashley Coutu – Poster Extracting Stories from DNA preserved by 19th century Americana Katarzyna Anna Vargas – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Margaret Holben Ellis

	Room 6-6 Proteomic analysis of samples from three Raphael Cartoons: Original material, repair or retouching? Annamaria Cucina – Poster Overlooked Organics in Decorative Arts: Cataloging Skin-Based, Skeletal, and Hard Keratinous Animal Tissues Lara Kaplan – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Julie Arslanoglu

	Room 6-7 (1) Artist and Researcher in the collection - a pilot project (2) The microbiome of a XIV century medieval codex: are microbes part of cultural heritage objects? Cecilia Flocco – Poster Hiding in plain sight: The biomolecular identification of seal use in Romanesque medieval manuscripts Élodie Lévêque – Team Presenter ArcHives: Beeswax as a Biomolecular Archive (an exploratory investigation) Samuel Johns – Team Presenter MODERATOR: Caroline Tokarski

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Closing Remarks and Logistics

Session 3: Unexpected Discoveries

Session 4: Seeing the Bigger Picture