ADInstruments: 1988 - 2009: Over 20 Years of Innovation

Winners of the LabChart Platinum Draw

Major Prize Winner (January 1, 2009) The lucky recipient of the PowerLab 8/30, LabChart Pro software and a Laptop is:

• Marie Altie (France)

Monthly iPod Touch Winners

• April: Dr Anuradha Singh (Singapore)
• May: Santhosh Baby (USA)
• June: Xue Wu (China)
• July: David Semple (United Kingdom)
• August: Zhiming Zhu (China)
• September: Piotr Bednarczyk (Poland)
• October: Harold Schultz (USA)
• November: Manish Lavhale (USA)
• December: Kevin Shoemaker (Canada)
• January: João Dutra (Brazil)

Winners of the LabChart Reader Draw

Monthly winners of 1GB ADInstruments 20th Anniversary Commemorative Flash Drive

April:
Andrew Manning (UK), Antony Perkins (UK), Brad Edwards (Australia), Carlos Rosas (Guatemala), Prof Cheng Ma (China), Guillermo Ledezma (Chile), Jerovan Castro (Chile), Koen Van Crombruggen (Belgium), Man Mak (Hong Kong), Manan Oza (India), Dr Mark Read (Australia), Mike Gill (New Zealand), Dr Paolo Santicioli (Italy), Rasoul Tabarikhomeiran (Iran), Rita Monori (UK), Sandeep Kumar (India), Syed Shakeeb (Pakistan), Timna Dean (Australia), Vasundhara Kain (India), Dr William Bozeman (USA)

May:
ByungSu Yoo (USA), Charles Sproule (USA), Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar (USA), Jacqueline Morris (USA), Ryan Marker (USA), Mr. Yu Ju Chang (USA), Nicole Yang (USA), Dale Cooper (Canada), Javier González (Colombia), Sr Lucinei Maciel (Brazil), Muhammad Hussain (Pakistan), Mr Joshua Jin (New Zealand), Mr Mike Bellamy (New Zealand), Mr Neil Ward (New Zealand), Mr Norbert Csatary (New Zealand), Dr Scott Smid (Australia), Mr Robert Tripodi (Australia), Mr Prof Jean-Louis Bény (Switzerland), Prof Jon O. Skarphedinsson (Iceland), Mr Ross Cloak (United Kingdom)

June:
Ann Schloithe (Australia), Anthony Nicholson (USA), Atanas Ignatov (USA), Dave Maskew (United Kingdom), David Foster (USA), Graham Nicholson (Australia), Hitoshi Sasaki (Japan), Hui Li (China), Jaehyun Eom (Korea), Krauklis Krauklis (Latvia), Lisa Walter (Australia), M A Kenrick (Australia), Noach de Haas (Germany), Oleg Dranitsin (Germany), Philip Venz (Australia), Rahul Chaudhari (India), Sanket Jadhav (India), Suha Chamma (New Zealand), Taeho Lee (Korea), Timothy Clark (Canada)

July:
Alana McCambridge (New Zealand), Alena Prusinowski (USA), Alexandre Dubois (France), Andrew Kompa (Australia), Axel Menzebach (Germany), Cui-xian Lee (China), David Vleck (USA), Duane McPherson (USA), Edwin Aguinaldo (Saudi Arabia), Hossein Babaei (Iran), Ian Kay (United Kingdom), James Kennard (United Kingdom), Kelvin MacDonald (USA), Lan Mao (USA), Liang (China), Robert Meech (United Kingdom), Ruth Ann Elliott (United Kingdom), Tallat Naz (Pakistan), Yinyin Zhang (China), Young Han (USA)

August:
Ahmed Badar (Saudi Arabia), Angela Tsang (New Zealand), Braxton Norwood (USA), Gordon Crabb (Australia), Graham Christie (United Kingdom), Hannah Palliser (Australia), Hugh Clements-Jewery (USA), Jaime Macaya (Spain), Joergen Andresen (Denmark), Lindsay Robertson (New Zealand), Marcos Figueiredo (Portugal), Nick Seeley (United Kingdom), Patricia Duran (Colombia), Pep Huang (New Zealand), Slade Matthews (Australia), Supachoke Mangmool (USA), Trung Pham (USA), Wilson Saad (Brazil), Xiaomeng Wang (United Kingdom), Zoe Gaffen (United Kingdom)

September:
Andre Tan (Australia), Andreas Christ (Germany), Armin Just (USA), Candice Pullen (Australia), Hiroshi Akima (Japan), Iain Chambers (United Kingdom), Jani Lewis (USA), Joelle Alcock (United Kingdom), Jurriaan Beek (Australia), Lucy Hawkes (United Kingdom), Muhamad Rusdi Ahmad Rusmili (Malaysia), Rajesh Katare (United Kingdom), Ronald Benson (USA), Ruslan Tiniakov (USA), Sarah Wahlstrom Helgren (USA), Saurabh Biswas (USA), Valerie Kalter (USA), Vandana Kawale (India), Ying Morgan (Australia), Yunqing Wen (China)

October:
Alan Ross (United Kingdom), Anne Marjorie David (Philippines), Bonnie Shum (Canada), Chris Lockhart (Canada), Colin Steel (Canada), Frank Bloomfield (New Zealand), Hugh Barras (United Kingdom), Iraklis Pozios (Greece), Jimmy Klotz (USA), Johanna Kolodziejski (USA), Kevin Moffat (United Kingdom), Mark Wellard (Australia), Mark Titchener (New Zealand), Michelle Stammet (USA), Moritz Gutjahr-Holland (Australia), Roberto Nüñez (Mexico), Ruben Lafarga (Argentina), Ryan Yarzak (USA), Tiffany Faithfull (Australia), Yuen Keng Ng (Hong Kong)

November:
Ben Blacklow (Australia), Carlos Tirapelli (Brazil), Daniel Astinotti (New Zealand), Jack Avila (Peru), James Downing (United Kingdom), Joewel Baibado (Philippines), Kathy Murphy (United Kingdom), Kristina Kosmis (Germany), Laxman Kawale (India), Liu Yu (China), Matt Weston (USA), Matteo Beretta (Austria), Mike Summerfield (United Kingdom), Muammar Kabir (Australia), Rahul Bhartiya (India), Rodrigo Caüas (Chile), Seongwoo Han (Korea), Stuart Stafford (United Kingdom), T.N. Prabakar (India), Troy Gibson (United Kingdom)

December:
Akinsanya Alaba (Nigeria), Gurjinder Virdi (India), Gyebin Kang (Korea), Kandaswamy Kathirvel (India), Daniel Grana (Argentina), Francesco Noe' (Italy), Gary Baker (United Kingdom), Jerome Thireau (France), Joanne Ng (United Kingdom), Karen Stuart-Smith (United Kingdom), Kyriacos Kolocassides (Greece), T. Snelling (United Kingdom), Tausif Saudi (United Kingdom), Vincent Girod (France), Youichirou Ootsuka (Australia), Ramachandran Selvakumar (Singapore), Mahmoud El-Daly (Canada), Malan Silva (USA), Michael Cardinal-Aucoin (Canada), Yoyi Lee (USA)

January:
Abdelali Agouni (France), Adam Cates (USA), Bettina Bruegging (Germany), Christopher Chan (USA), Daniel Kueh (USA), George Merritt (USA), Jiashin Wu (USA), Joe Barritt (United Kingdom), John Lowry (Ireland), Marco Meloni (United Kingdom), Marina Epelbaum (USA), Mohammad Ridhwan (Malaysia), Muthu Raman (India), Paola Melotti (Italy), Peter Watt (United Kingdom), Preecha Promma (Thailand), Toyin Dada (Canada), Vijaya Kumar (India), Yannis Salomeia (United Kingdom), Sarka Studena (Czech Republic)

Winners of the LabChart Favourite Feature Draw

Monthly winners of an iPod Shuffle

• April: Sebastian Gaigg (UK), Dr Mie Brüel (Denmark)
• May: Ralf Stam(Netherlands), Liang Li (China)
• June: Richard Roberts (United Kingdom), Taeho Lee (Korea)
• July: Neil Ward (New Zealand), Daniel Meer (USA)
• August: Ken O'Halloran (Ireland), Ma Chen (China)
• September: Sue Edwards (USA), Maria Siebes (Netherlands)
• October: Bill Perrotti (USA), Sarah Wahlstrom Helgren (USA)
• November: Joergen Andrese (Denmark), Steve Sievekin (USA)
• December: Sandeep Kumar (India), Vincent Girod (France)
• January: Martin Ballegaard (Denmark), John Lowry (Ireland)

Winners of the Education Experiment Draw

Winners of an iPod Touch

• January 2009: Timna Dean (Australia), Misty McLean (USA), Penny Perkins-Johnston (USA), Neil Ward (New Zealand)

YouTube Video - Measuring Performance Anxiety with PowerLab

(14 December 2008)

Earlier this year, bioengineers from the Imperial College London took part in the Virtuoso Stress performance at the Science Museum's Dana Centre. During the evening, musicians' physiological stress was recorded and displayed for the audience using PowerLab systems. You can now watch highlights from the event on YouTube.

Top Swimming Coaches use PowerLab and Video Capture for Technique Optimization

(24 November 2008)

TeamTermin, led by its founder Budd Termin is currently working with ADInstruments to bring the latest in performance testing for the sport of swimming by combining the late Dr Al Craig’s velocity swim meter with ADInstruments PowerLab data acquisition system and the LabChart Video Capture module.

Abnormal Breathing Research in the Himalayas

(27 October 2008)

5050 m above sea level, 730 kg of experimental equipment carried by 19 porters, 7000 L of cylinder gases, 53 sleep studies, 107 ventilatory response tests, 107 arterial blood samples, 720 transcranial magnetic stimulation zaps, 200 cardiac echos, 18 hours of hyperventilation, 20 L of infused saline, 8 life-saving intramuscular Dexamethasone injections and 1042800000 sampling data points.

LabTutor Software Used by Talented Middle School Students at Michigan State University

(17 September 2008)

A group of twenty talented middle school students recently explored physiological concepts using PowerLab systems with LabTutor software at a two-week residential program that is held annually at Michigan State University (MSU). The program was so successful that there are plans to include LabTutor experiments in future years.

Biopharmaceutical Company Founder Dr. Kengatharan, PowerLab User Since 1993

(01 August 2008)

Dr. M. (Ken) Kengatharan, co-founder of South San Francisco based biopharmaceutical company, Athenagen, Inc (later re-named CoMentis, Inc) has been using PowerLab systems to advance his research for 15 years. During this time he has progressed from being a doctoral student to becoming Vice President, Translational Research and Scientific Affairs at CoMentis.

PowerLab provides 20 Years of Savings at Wollongong University

(02 July 2008)

In 1988 several scientists at the University of Wollongong pioneered the use of a compact, inexpensive computer-based data acquisition and analysis system that had been developed by the newly-established company, ADInstruments. Twenty years later, and educators at Wollongong continue to use PowerLab across five different courses in a range of applications.

Teaching Students & Educators at West Chester

(12 June 2008)

As the North American summer vacation begins, the educators at West Chester University in Pennsylvania are using their break from teaching 400 students with PowerLab to share curriculum and experiment ideas with life science educators from institutions across the country.

Fish Physiology and Climate Change Takes PowerLab to Antarctica

(06 May 2008)

In 2007, the effect of climate change on notothenioid fish prompted researchers from New Zealand and Sweden to pack up their PowerLab systems and travel to the Scott Base in Antarctica. The researchers investigated how a rise in water temperature affects the cardiovascular and respiratory physiology of the borch.

Teaching First Year Physiology with LabTutor

(01 April 2008)

LabTutor software has been one of our most innovative developments for life science teaching. Learn how the University of Otago and the University of Western Sydney are using LabTutor to enhance introductory physiology courses during the first year of health science and medicine degrees.

International Space Station Astronauts Connect to PowerLab for Cardiovascular Research

(27 February 2008)

Read about a group of Canadian researchers using PowerLab to investigate how life on the International Space Station affects astronauts' cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology.