The University of Bordeaux was founded in 1441 in France. In 1970, the University was split up in four separate universities. It was reestablished on 1 January 2014 from the merger of three of the new universities: Bordeaux 1, Victor Segalen Univeristy (Bordeuax 2) and Montesquieu Univeristy (bordeuax 4). The University of Bordeaux is part of the Community of universities and higher education institutions of Aquitaine.
Today, the University of Bordeaux is ranked among the top French universities for the quality of its academic coursesand research. This multidisciplinary, research-focused, international institution leads the “Initiative of Excellence” (idEx Bordeaux) and is one of only three universities in France with an IdEx program confirmed in 2016. Via this program, the University of Bordeaux develops innovative training, research and knowledge transfer programs in numerous fields of excellence and in partnership with other educational institutes in Bordeaux.
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.