Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/17/2019
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location
NYMS Headquarters
Category(ies) No Categories
POST-EVENT info and EVENT PHOTOS
What a wonderful meeting and mini-workshop this was! Daughter and mother the Drs Reimschuessel, are both so smart, accomplished, personable, and enthusiastic. Renate Reimschuessel’s followup:
Email Dr Reimschuessel’s for information from her lecture! Her generous offer:
EVENT PHOTOS See more on our Facebook page as posted by NYMS Member Jay Holmes
Post-lecture Appreciations, Fellowship, and Mini-workshop
Our esteemed guests, the Drs Reimschuessel. It’s a homecoming for Annemarie, who was our President during the 1970s:
NYMS pin, patch, & medal to Renate R And a NYMS pin to Annemarie R
(sic!) 1969 NYMS Yearbook photo and caption would today read Mr/Dr and Dr..! [apologies for moire]
Mini-workshop Lecture
Pre-lecture Mini-workshop and Fellowship
ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
New York Microscopical Society meeting, Sunday February 17, 12 – 5 PM!
Free and open to the public, at NYMS Headquarters, 66 Mt Prospect Avenue, Clifton, NJ, accessible from NYC and surrounding region via NJ Transit trains and buses, as well as by auto — free parking.
NYMS Headquarters will open by noon, and will remain open through 5:30.
Feel free to bring a lunchbox/brownbag meal: starting about 4 PM we will eat together in NYMS Headquarters. Hot coffee, tea, bottled water, sodas, basic condiments, paper plates, napkins, and plastic utensils provided.
Featured Presentation:
12:30-5:00 HANDS ON Mini-workshop in NYMS microscopy laboratory w/pre-prepared slides:
Finding significant details in mounted specimens
2:00 PM Lecture:
How an FDA aquatic animals veterinarian used microscopy to find the mechanism of toxicity of pet food and infant formula melamine contamination
Renate Reimschuessel, VMD, PhD, works as a biologist in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Research within the Center for Veterinary Medicine. According to FDA, Reimschuessel was able to determine how melamine and related chemicals in pet food were responsible for causing kidney damage in dogs and cats. Prior to this work, scientists had rejected the idea that melamine was contaminating pet food because they thought the chemical was non-toxic.
Dr Renate Reimschuessel was nominated for a Service to America Award, designated for federal employees who make significant contributions to the safety, health and wellbeing of Americans.
Reimschuessel was also honored by U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, who placed into the Congressional Record his statement that Dr. Reimschuessel’s research had identified the ability of nontoxic compounds to become toxic when combined, and had helped improve the way our government preserves scientific specimens. Rep. Ruppersberger lauded Dr Reimschuessel for helping to resolve an immediate crisis, and for continuing in FDA efforts to protect the U.S. food supply from tainted imports.
SPECIAL!
Renate’s mother Dr Annemarie C Reimschuessel was NYMS’ President during part of the 1970s. We met Annemarie again when she and Renate attended NYMS’ 2017 Winter Banquet, and Annemarie will join us again on the 17th!