We are giving away $350 for this Lab Week contest! We can send the cash prize anywhere in the world—so any lab in the world can participate!
Special thanks to TECHLAB for sponsoring this Lab Week contest!
Here’s how to participate:
1. Take a picture of your Mystery Machine of Diagnostics (a.k.a. analyzer)
2. Post your Picture, Name of your Analyzer and Why on our website as a comment under this contest section (not on Facebook or anywhere else). This will be your official entry.
3. When posting the picture, please include the name of your Lab and which State or Country you’re from.
4. Multiple entries (different analyzers) are welcome.
5. On April 30th at 2100 MST, the top three entries with MOST LIKES (thumbs up) will be our contest finalists.
6. TECHLAB will pick the winning entry among the three finalists.
Contest Prizes:
- The finalist with the winning entry picked by TECHLAB will receive a cash prize of $250.
- The other two finalists will receive a consolation prize of $50 each.
Note: We would like to keep all contest entries clean and creative for everyone. Good luck and let’s have some fun!
This is Donny Osmol 1. He has been reported to HR for ongoing inappropriate “cat call” whistling at coworkers. In return, the supervisors want to throw him out a window for his insubordination!
Strong Memorial/University of Rochester Medical Center Core Chemistry/Hematology Lab
This is our Maldi-Tod aka “The Doctor”. The Doctor helps identify our bacterial/fungal organisms through the process of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight, but it’s easier to say the Doctor takes our samples through time and space and brings our IDs back to us. Also, it kind of looks like a Tardis 😁.
Jason, Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, Lodi, Ca, USA
Hi, we are a lab in Central Florida!
This is Peeyoncé, our Urinalysis Analyzer.
Why is our Clinitek named Peeyoncé?
Because like Beyonce, she runs the world (of Urinalysis). Whether its glucose, ketones or bilirubin-if you liked it, then you should put a strip on it. If there’s a mystery in the urine, you better believe Peeyoncé’s got it handled.
cute!!!! I love this
Love this!
We named our Beckman DXI 600s Beavis and Butthead because they look and like them.
Do you have a picture of the analyzers?
I thought I posted it with the comment but it must not have went through
We named our two Thunder Bolts, Thor and Loki. According to legend, Thor now wields the lightning bolt so one of these analyzers is named in his honor. We named the other one Loki because we knew he would find a way to get what Thor has. So, to avoid all his chaos, we named the second one after Loki.
Adventist Health Lodi Memorial Clinical Laboratory
Lodi, CA
Meet Carole Baskins and Tiger King! Carole was our first one and it was a royal pain to get going sometimes. Tiger was the second one to come in. Each have there own issues from time to time!
Grinnell, Iowa
Meet Richard. He was our replacement last year for our previous analyzer (R.I.P. Otis). I’m sure you can guess why he got his name.
“Mess with the bull, you get the horns.”
MercyOne
Oelwein, Iowa
Richarddddd my main man….lmao
This is Starlord, the DAKO OMNIS. He recently blew himself up, but his journey is far from over. The quest to take down Thanos, the DAKO Autostainer, continues for him and the other Guardians. Thanos’ reign of lab domination is slowly unraveling, as his once-unshakable control begins to slip. The mounting requests for maintenance are taking longer and longer to complete, and with every delay, his grip on the lab weakens.
-Alberta, Canada
Meet Bloody Mary. It is the newest addition to our lineup. After training and the frustration of learning a new analyzer many of us needed one!
-Waverly, IA
These are Sam and Dean Winchester ABL. Sam is our problem analyzer and my right hand woman in chemistry greatly enjoys yelling “Sammmmmyyyyyyyyy” when he breaks. And obviously Dean is the powerhouse of the blood gas bench and carries the show on his shoulders.
– Bassett Army Community Hospital Fairbanks, Alaska
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This is Gary because he looks like a snail.
Blanding, Utah
Columbia,MO
This is “Frankie” with his favorite Siemens repairman tickling his Dimension EXL innerds. His name is short for Frankenstein because he sat in storage with reagents still in his lines for 3 years, but I brought him back from the dead. He ran well when he wanted to but he had his days. Frankie lasted 2 years until he was finally shut down properly and retired to the big instrument graveyard in the sky.
RIP Frankie 😢😢
Our 5600 is named Bubbles. He has a thing for bubbles and freaks out when he finds them.
Blanding, Utah.
This is Gary because he looks like a snail.
Blanding, Utah
Biofire sounds like a crying goat. It’s also the GREATEST OF ALL TIME. 🐐 🤣 Entry from Colorado.
And finally, our less beloved Xerox Marley. He can’t handle more than 1-3 pages at a time
He be jammin’ and not in a good way!
Oelwein, Iowa
Hahaha
Our two XN machines, the BEST of buddies Bert and Ernie! Ernie is definitely well behaved, but Bert not so much. We had to bring in Art the Clown for security.
This is our Alinity and we call him Mayhem. Unfortunately you can probably guess why!
Happy Lab Week from Parrish Medical Center in FL!
Our new Sysmex U2000, The Sharon.
The story…Sharon is one of our more seasoned techs, 46 years to be exact, and she was hesitant to make the switch to the Sysmex U2000. After a few weeks, Sharon stated “I dont hate it.” That is a glowing review. In the same conversation it was also said, “It would be rude to not like something named after you.” We love them both!❤️
-Auburn NY
Meet Magic Mic. The Vitek is where all the magic happens!
—Waverly, IA
Wow Waverly IA! Getting close to home! I’m from Sumner 😄