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

Updated 20250115

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 available below
PMID_1465965 🔗

Update dd 20250115 – proceedings paper PMID: 1465965 added

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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.

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Minneapolis 1989 Poster | 20240804

September 1989 at a symposium of two international societies in Minneapolis, USA (1) , I presented this first poster on the ‘ invention ‘ of using the UW solution ( the University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution) during pancreatic islet isolation, with the exciting discovery of near-complete purification of islets of Langerhans in the laboratory for transplantation in diabetic patients.

Here the remastered 20240804 edition of that Minneapolis 1989 poster presentation.

The UWS data had been added ad hoc in the poster – that is , it wasn’t part of the accepted abstract. The first proceedings paper on our UWS work was also submitted at this meeting , and was published April ’90 (3).

A previous edition of the remastered poster was published here two years ago (2) but that edition had a different photo print (higher magnification, and without the bar indicator) of the purified islet preparation inserted, not the original image. This has been corrected now. In addition the original line spacing is now restored.

Notes

1) Van der Burg MPM, Gooszen HG, Ploeg RJ, Scherft JP, Field MJ, Guicherit OR, Terpstra JL, Van de Woude FT, Frölich M, Bruijn JA. Comparison of islet isolation techniques in dogs: Over 90% purified islets using UW solution. 4th International Symposium on Organ Procurement and Preservation and 2nd International Congress on Pancreatic and Islet Transplantation, Minneapolis (USA) September 17–22, 1989.

2) Minneapolis 1989 Poster UW Solution Islet Isolation | 20220822 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2022/08/22

3). Van der Burg MPM, Gooszen HG, Ploeg RJ, Scherft JP, Field MJ, Guicherit OR, Terpstra JL, Van de Woude FJ, Frölich M, Bruijn JA. Comparison of islet isolation techniques in dogs: Over 90% purified islets using UW solution. Transplant Proc. 1990 Apr;22(2):795-6. PMID: 2158174.
This paper appears to be not readily available online – a reprint copy is available here PMID_2158174 🔗

PMID_2158174 Download

Updates

20241211 : Minor text updates

20260128 : Added Reference 3 and pdf file of the proceedings paper

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Leiden Islet Laboratory History • 20240803

Summer 1985… start of our Leiden Islet Transplant Laboratory by Paul van Suylichem (right) and Michel van der Burg (middle), both from the Surgery department — wondering how to start here our islet lab in this space – a former weighing chamber (left : stable weighing table) made available by the Cell Biology department of the Leiden University, headed by Prof J.P. Scherft. Where to put our equipment… the laminar flow cabinet, large centrifuge, fridge, freezer, shaking waterbath, microscopes, and a lot of disposables coming ?

I had started working in 1981 for the Pancreas project. Pancreas transplantation research with the surgeon Hein Gooszen , working on his PhD (1), and surgeon Reinout van Schilfgaarde – who headed the project – and in 1985 also started this islet project.

Summer 1986, when Reinout van Schilfgaarde together with Paul van Suylichem moved to the Groningen University Hospital (2), Hein Gooszen and I decided to make a fresh start with the now operational Leiden Islet Lab…

Fifteen years of research later we were ready to roll with the isolation of human islets of Langerhans, in our new GMP facility in the Leiden Univerity Medical Center (LUMC). September 2001, the National Health Care Institute positively assessed our permit application for Transplantation of Islets of Langerhans in the LUMC (3,6), followed by approval May 2003 of the islet bank by the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS).

Notes

Post last update : 20241010-1611

Gooszen HG. Canine segmental pancreatic autotransplantation. Analysis of the effects of ductobliteration. Thesis, Leiden, 1984
Benoemd – Te Groningen dr.R.van Schilfgaarde tot hoogleraar in de heelkunde. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1986;130:2240 | URL https://www.ntvg.nl/artikelen/personalia-7848
Advies vergunningsaanvraag transplantatie Eilandjes van Langerhans | Op 27 september 2001 uitgebracht aan de minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport. | Rapport 01/71 | C.R. Smand, J.P. Verduijn / College voor Zorgverzekeringen. URL https://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/nbt/p229940978
Update 20240807. Added some history, and made minor changes.
Update 20240828 minor correction date (Fresh start lab ‘At the end of 1986’ changed to Summer 1986.)
Update 20241010, added : Press release Sep 27, 2001 by National Health Care Institute (CVZ). Transplantatie Eilandjes van Langerhans naar LUMC 27 september 2001. CVZ adviseert over vergunning. John van der Pas, persvoorlichter CVZ. Source : Razende Robot Reporter | Nieuwsbank Interactief Nederlands persbureau .
Retrieved 20090313 from Nieuwsbank.nl (link expired, domain has new owner).
20241010 PDF (Ads , and author phone number redacted by M.P.M. van der Burg | Miracles•Media) file 20241010_CVZ • URL michelvanderburg.com/2024/10/10

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NOS News Photo | 20240517

NOS News • today, 10:09
French police shot dead man who wanted to set fire to Rouen synagogue…

The visible caption on this photo here is ‘ANP’, the in Holland well known almost 100 year old press agency (similar to eg Reuters) distributing news to other professional media like newspapers and our national tv broadcaster .

Annoying … (knowing) you now need to check every news item image (photo/still) of the Dutch national news broadcaster NOS to find out whether that image really is a news photo or actually fake … just an illustration from some archive.

Archive image – ANP | https://www.anp.nl | NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517_2

You need to click this image in the post to be able to read the small print additional caption, this is just an archive image (dutch: archiefbeeld) … no news.

I appreciate the excellent NOS public national news broadcaster in the Netherlands. And, using archive footage may help storytelling in documentary work. However, here, watching the NOS site on an iPad or desktop PC, it’s obvious the design of the site creates a problem , since posting a news item requires using at least one image. With no news photo available , the best alternative here appears to be using text for the featured image.

Else, best, show the notice ‘Archive image’ clearly visible at first glance in the post’s image… (?)

Citation info : NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517 | michelvanderburg.com

Update

Update 20240517 – 1543 CET minor text changes

Update 20240517 – 2217 CET : Noticed that (i) NOS site post has been updated last at 16:18 CET ; and image has been replaced with actual news image (caption : Police investigations at the Rouen synagogue | dutch : Politie doet onderzoek bij de synagoge in Rouen )

Update 20240517 _ 2237 CET : screenshot new image

Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305

Filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer also filmed two of his children in the Westerborkfilm…

Stefan (left) & Ursula Breslauer, children of Rudolf Breslauer, the filmmaker of the Westerbork film at the farm of Camp Westerbork in 1944 – identified by the dutch photographer Sake Elzinga, who received Breslauer’s family photo albums last year when the family of Ursula – the only survivor – visited an expo on Breslauer in the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands.

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker ordered the Westerbork film , made by the German Jewish prisoner, photographer, Rudolf Breslauer in the spring of 1944.

Today 80 years ago – March 5, 1944 – the camp is an ‘Arbeitslager’ – a work camp – when Rudolf Breslauer starts filming the daily life of the Westerbork prisoners — inside : in the barracks, for example a religious service, cabaret, workshops, factories, aircraft and battery recycling, medical care, and outside the barracks : construction of a greenhouse, a football match, women working out, chopping wood, incoming transports, and eventually also the departure of a deportation train. After Breslauer films the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz on May 19, 1944 the filming stops.
The haunting image of the 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Settela, standing in the closing doors of the goods train, and the unique footage of that deportation train that leaves the Westerbork camp, became iconic after the war.

Deportation Breslauer family

Werner Rudolf Breslauer , his wife Bella Weihsmann, sons Stefan and Max Michael (Mischa), and daughter Ursula were deported autumn 1944 from Westerbork to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Only Ursula survived.

Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | Frame 127475 from Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949 9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision

Notes

Clip from : Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | Complete Remastered Edition | YouTube https://youtu.be/ZiLNDziwEtc

Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/03/02/westerbork-film-🎦-2021-complete-remastered-edition-20220302/

Kinderen van filmmaker Breslauer herkend in historische Westerborkfilm. Dutch national news broadcaster NOS Nieuws, in cooperation with RTV Drenthe, 13:18 Monday 4 March 2024 | URL https://nos.nl/artikel/2511414-kinderen-van-filmmaker-breslauer-herkend-in-historische-westerborkfilm

Scene with Stefan & Ursula Breslauer, starting at 56:13 in the 1986 RVD edition of the Westerborkfilm:
Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerbork Film RVD | 20240305 | Settela•Com | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfNzA72JeGgVoOFp_VTI4EQQr3yTwXu6_

Settela Film | 20220630 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

Deportation Westerbork Film | 20210719 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

English introduction to Westerborkfilm :
Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/

Citation info : Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2024/03/05

Deportation | 20240226

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker oversees the deportation of Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Westerbork transit camp May 19, 1944 .

Gemmeker is the producer of the Westerborkfilm — he ordered the film. Cameraman is the German Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer.

Source : Frame 2608 from Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/