Author: @1memo

Pittsburgh 1992 Cell Transplant Society • 20240812

Poster Cell Transplant Society, Pittsburgh (USA) June 3, 1992 • 20240812_1 • michelvanderburg•com • TakeNode ca498136-3e99-4486-b641-f9f61894f19c

Congress

Pittsburgh (USA) May 31–June 3, 1992. Founding meeting, and 1st Int. Congress of the Cell Transplant Society.

Michel van der Burg, Co-chair ‘Methods’ Poster Discussion CTS , Pittsburgh June 3, 1992 • 20240812_2 • michelvanderburg•com • TakeNode 509ce973-d218-4f9c-84ef-ffa7c4fdb0d1

Poster creation

The poster was designed and produced May 1992 on a Macintosh computer using MacDraw II (with bar graphs from Cricket Graph) and printed landscape across a chain of several sheets of paper using the Imagewriter dotmatrix printer.

For this 2024 remastered poster below, the 1992 MacDraw II file was converted and edited using LibreOffice Vanilla, and next Pixelmator Pro was used for additional ‘repair’ (conversion issues with the many layers used for ‘tubes’ creation) and the insertion of the photo scans.

Poster Pittsburgh 1992 Cell Transplant Society, remastered • 20240812_3 • michelvanderburg•com • TakeNode 26159e06-9f29-4fab-a5f3-a595469b352e

Notes

Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Scherft JP, Bruijn JA, Frölich M, Gooszen HG. Islet preservation during isolation: a new concept in cell transplantation. First International Congress of the Cell Transplant Society, Pittsburgh (USA) May 31 – June 3, 1992.

Van der Burg MPM, Guicherit OR, Frölich M, Bruijn JA, Gooszen HG. Islet preservation during isolation: a new concept in cell transplantation. Transplant Proc. 1992 Dec;24(6):2840-1. PMID: 1465965. PDF FILE available below
PMID_1465965 🔗

Updated 20250115 : proceedings paper added

Citation info : Pittsburgh 1992 Cell Transplant Society • 20240812 • Michel van der Burg • michelvanderburg•com

Lucky #1 Islet • 20240811

Shortly after starting our Islet Lab end 1986, I hand-picked and photographed this special big heart-shaped isolated islet of Langerhans with Uncle Scrooge McDuck’s ‘lucky #1 dime’ in mind.
(dutch : Dagobert Duck’s geluksdubbeltje). This ‘First Islet’ poster was pinned to the wall in my study in the (small) Islet Lab ‘wing’ in the Cell Biology building of the Leiden University Hospital.

It’s an Islet of Langerhans isolated from a rat pancreas. For pilot work, the first months while developing our islet project plan, islets were isolated from rat pancreases.
I had started developing our basic lab methods… like eg. measuring the insulin secretion capacity and insulin content of isolated islets. A custom-made glass pipet was used to hand-pick and transfer the islets to little polypropyleen ‘Eppendorf’ tubes for insulin secretion tests with glucose stimulation.

Citation info : Lucky #1 Islet • 20240811 • Michel van der Burg • michelvanderburg•com | TakeNode 5234a6e0-4565-4167-bb46-0f922c0b1d2a

Organ Transplantation 1983 Symposium • 20240810

Friday, September 2, 1983 talk by Hein Gooszen, on experimental pancreas transplantation (1), at the International Symposium on Organ Transplantation in Diabetics (2) in the Hall of Knights (dutch : Ridderzaal), Binnenhof (English: Inner Court), The Hague, Netherlands.

Notes

1. Hein Gooszen, Reinout van Schilfgaarde, Marijke Frölich, Michel van der Burg (Leiden, The Netherlands). Long-term endocrine function of ductobliterated in situ and autografted left canine pancreatic segments. International Symposium on Organ Transplantation in Diabetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 1–2, 1983.

2. Reinout van Schilfgaarde (Leiden, The Netherlands) chaired the organizing and scientific committee.

Citation info : Organ Transplantation 1983 Symposium • 20240810 • Michel van der Burg • michelvanderburg•com • TakeNode (20240810_1) 37e1dc78-b59f-4305-8441-55f8d02cce6b • TakeNode (20240810_2) 57e8de9e-639b-422b-a567-bc1399dd1b4e

Updates • 20240808

Lyon 1991 Percoll Poster | 20240731 • 20240808 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | TakeNode 8cd3161a-2405-4586-aaeb-08096e1a636e

Two posts have been updated / upgraded :

  1. Leiden Islet Laboratory History ( 20240803 ) was updated last night , by adding some history notes. | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/08/03/leiden-islet-laboratory-history-20240803/
  2. Percoll UWS Pancreatic Islet Purification (20240731) now has a remastered poster image , see below.

Lyon 1991 Percoll Poster | 20240731 • 20240808

20240808 – remastered poster : Following the first publication here last month (20240731) of the original 1991 MacDraw poster opened (converted) in LibreOffice Vanilla (1), I learned how to do some editing in the LibreOffice app to further restore poster layout details such as line spacing, and font style. An archive photo of another poster presentation in Pittsburgh in 1992 (that will be posted here soon) guided this restoration.

Current workflow :
1) opening the MacDraw II file in LibreOffice Vanilla
2) editing in in LibreOffice Vanilla , saving as LibreOffice Vanilla file (OpenDocument Drawing – extension odg).
3) opening the photo tiff image in the Mac’s Preview app, and copying the displayed image to the clipboard
4) pasting the clipboard image in the LibreOffice doc , and dragging to adjust size and location 5) exporting the file as PDF (image resolution 300 DPI ; PDF/A-1b ; PDF/UA). 6) Converting the PDF in the Preview app to TIFF 144 pixels/inch. 7) Adding caption , metadata etc with JPEG conversion in PhotoMill.

The 20240731 post now has this updated 20240808 – poster image.

Citation info : Lyon 1991 Percoll Poster | 20240731 • 20240808 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | TakeNode 8cd3161a-2405-4586-aaeb-08096e1a636e

Great Barrier Reef • 20240807

Biodiversity at the Norman Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Sep. 20, 1999. With Maori Wrasse, Yellow Tail Snapper, Blue-spot Lagoon Ray, Paddletail fish, corals…

Diving with Maori Wrasse • 20240807_01 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 74545f2a-6600-4a3c-ad26-21c3604c9b1d

Maori Wrasse • 20240807_02 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 7dcb9ba6-0e72-4b03-bbd3-fd5836626f80

Yellow Tail Snapper • 20240807_03 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode f803e98c-36ec-40e8-a2b1-fe4d15b5e766

Blue-spot Lagoon Ray • 20240807_04 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 257b1505-a0d5-4c2c-97a8-ebc821c13f35

Paddletail fish • 20240807_05 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 2d150094-3b72-4865-a4a1-746db4be965a

Dive Norman Reef • 20240807_06 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode e9b42c78-3574-424c-8995-58499b59a91b

Coral Norman Reef • 20240807_07 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode f53c8d13-c58c-495f-80f3-0b010fbaf571

Coral Norman Reef • 20240807_08 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 51f6cbb2-0176-47af-a6cd-196bc3958a63

Coral Norman Reef • 20240807_09 • 1-memo•com • TakeNode 234eb832-f052-49a5-86ce-267744063fdd

Citation post : Great Barrier Reef • 20240807 • 1-memo•com