COLORADO SPRINGS, CO and BAR HARBOR, ME--(Marketwire - March 24, 2009) -
ADInstruments, a
leading provider of high-performance data acquisition systems for the life
sciences, has announced a three-year partnership agreement with The Jackson
Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution. ADInstruments will
provide technical experts, guest lecturers, PowerLab data acquisition
hardware and LabChart Pro software for The Jackson Laboratory's
world-renowned Courses and Conferences program. In addition to this in-kind
support, ADInstruments will also provide funding for the program at the
Gold Corporate Sponsor level.
The Jackson Laboratory has been an early adopter of the PowerLab data
acquisition system, utilizing the system in both its own research capacity
and complementing the agenda of several of its courses and workshops,
including the workshop on Comprehensive Approaches to the in vivo
Assessment of Cardiovascular Function in Mice (to be held in June) and
Phenotyping Mouse Models of Human Lung Disease (to be held in September).
Both courses will be held at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Computers connected to the PowerLab data recording system, developed by
ADInstruments, will be the primary tool for acquiring biological signals
during the mentioned intensive multi-day training programs held at The
Jackson Laboratory.
The long term goal of this partnership is the realization of multiple
applications of ADInstrument's innovative technologies in leveraging
existing mouse genetic resources used to study human disease.
"I am excited about the partnership with The Jackson Laboratory. It's great
to see two leading organizations, with different expertise sets,
cooperating to provide this fantastic educational service to the scientific
research community," said Graham Milliken, president and CEO of
ADInstruments Pty Ltd. "We at ADInstruments are very proud to play a part
in training scientists at such a prestigious institution."
The Jackson Laboratory is recognized worldwide for its innovative use of
technology in both research and training environments.
"We are pleased to partner with ADInstruments to enhance the training
experience of our course and workshop attendees," said Senior Director of
Courses and Conferences John Macauley, Ph.D. "The financial and in-kind
support provided by ADInstruments will certainly help to provide excellent
educational experiences at a reasonable cost to the scientific community
year after year."
As part of the partnership ADInstruments and The Jackson Laboratory are
closely collaborating on future event programming at The Jackson Laboratory
to provide additional mouse-model physiology research skill sets to the
scientific community.
About ADInstruments
ADInstruments is one of the world's leading suppliers of data acquisition
systems for scientific, engineering and technical applications in academic
and commercial laboratories. ADInstruments offers powerful turn-key
multi-channel data recording hardware and software solutions for Windows
and Mac OS platforms.
With offices in America, Europe, Asia and Australia, ADInstruments has over
25,000 PowerLab systems installed worldwide with more than 7,000 cited
scientific publications to its name.
About The Jackson Laboratory
The Jackson Laboratory (www.jax.org) is an independent, nonprofit
biomedical research institution and National Cancer Institute-designated
Cancer Center based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento,
California. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing,
treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education
for the global biomedical community. The Laboratory is the world's source
for more than 3,500 strains of genetically defined mice, is home of the
mouse genome database and is an international hub for scientific courses,
conferences, training and education.
