University of Bordeaux

Caroline Tokarski 🇫🇷

• Supervisor of PhD candidate 10

Caroline Tokarski is Professor at the University of Bordeaux (UMR CNRS 5248-CBMN) and at the “Institut Universitaire de France”. She was recently nominated corresponding member of the National Academy of Pharmacy. She is director of the Proteome Platform of Bordeaux and co-director of the CNRS International Laboratory ARCHE (ARt and Cultural HEritage: Natural Organic Polymers by Mass Spectrometry) with Julie Arslanoglu, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her research activities are focused on the study of proteins, lipids and polysaccharides from native or transformed samples using minimally invasive methods based on high resolution mass spectrometry. She published the first application of proteomics in art in early 2000s. She also proposed proteomics methods to study food residues at trace level in archaeological pottery. More recently, she introduced omics approaches for polysaccharides sequencing in artworks. She was recognized by the Analytical Chemistry Division of the French Society of Chemistry for her developments in Mass Spectrometry for Cultural Heritage (Award 2011). Her current work is focused on intact protein analysis (top down methods), biomolecular networks / crosslinkings and degradation in Cultural Heritage samples.