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Here at ADInstruments , we have been working hard to ensure that our software is going to be compatible with Windows 10, the latest release from Microsoft. Read on to see if upgrading will affect your version of LabChart, LabTutor or Lt.

Just a week to go until the start of the Physiology 2015 conference in Cardiff, Wales!

For the last few years we have been the proud sponsor of the Sam Drogo Technology in the Classroom Award, which not only recognizes great qualities in instructors such as the courage and vision to innovate in the classroom, but also celebrates the life of a friend and passionate physiology educator with whom we worked for many years. T his year we'd like to congratulate two awardees, Dr. Louise Lexis of La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and Dr. Janet Casagrand from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

In autumn of 2014, we were proud to sponsor a poetry competition run by the UK Physiological Society in conjunction with Biology week. The challenge was to write an “Ode to physiology” and was open to two student age groups: under 11’s and under 19’s.

The ADInstruments team​ have long been strong advocates for innovation in teaching and for creative use of technology in the classroom, and we're pleased to show our support for creative educators with the Macknight award, to be presented at EB 2015. This year the winner is Dr. Trevor Day of Mt Royal University, Calgary, Canada.

Sponsored by ADInstruments and awarded by the APS Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section (NCAR) , this award recognizes the achievements of a promising, early-career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the understanding of neural control and autonomic regulation. This year the winner of the Michael J. Brody Young Investigator award is Dr. Jacqueline Limberg for her work on the control of blood pressure during hypoglycemia. Congratulations from all of us at ADInstruments !

Places are still available to attend this year’s Crawfly Neurophysiology Educator Workshop . A collaboration between ADInstruments and Cornell University, the workshop covers practical and dynamic methods of teaching invertebrate neurophysiology with common model systems, including crawdad and fruitfly .

We’d like to congratulate Dr Wes Colgan on receiving the Faculty of Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Educator of the Year Award, presented at this year’s Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington DC.

Most people are probably familiar with the physiological effects of eating chili peppers, such as increased sweating, flushed skin and a feeling of heat - effects mediated by chili pepper's active ingredient, capsaicin. Recently researchers have been exploring the therapeutic value of these effects and in particular, how they can be used to reduce stroke injury.

We’d like to thank everyone who came to our Physiology Educator workshops - in all, 146 attendees from 23 universities - at the Physiological Society of Nigeria and International Union of Physiological Sciences meeting in Lagos last month.

We were very proud and honored that the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honorable John Key visited our office in Dunedin yesterday, accompanied by the Minister for Science and Innovation, Steven Joyce.

We're all excited about the opening of our latest international office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - perhaps none more so than Middle East and North Africa Regional Manager, Mahmoud Khalil. "My team and I look forward to providing solutions for life science research and education, fast technical help, tailored training and even better quality service."

We’d like to congratulate the winners of the TReND-ADInstruments Student of the Year and Excellence awards from this year’s IBRO School on Insect Neuroscience and Drosophila Neurogenetics, held at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.