respirometry.org

Welcome to your

metabolic measurement and metabolic phenotyping

resource.

This is the companion web site to the book “Measuring metabolic rates: A manual for scientists“, by John Lighton!

Now in its second edition, with many additions and improvements including two new chapters devoted to metabolic phenotyping and room calorimetry. The publisher is Oxford University Press. Of course, nothing is ever perfect, and this book is no exception. Click here for errata (first edition, with a brief note for the second edition).

Book Errata

This web site is more than a book companion.


 It features detailed information on several areas of respirometry that John had no room to cover in his book. Among these are metabolic rate and other calculators, plus a series of articles in the blog on some of the latest and most controversial breakthroughs in metabolic measurement. Such as, a massive paradigm shift in metabolic screening systems made possible by “massively parallel” metabolic measurement engines and, if you can’t afford those, by wickedly fast multiplexed systems. Many of the blog posts are influenced by the R&D component of John’s day job as president of Sable Systems International. This is for your benefit. John also tweets discontinuously and can be followed on ResearchGate should you so desire. You have been warned.

Join in the conversation! If you are a scientist and become a user of this site, you can comment on blog postings and interact with John and other users. It’s fast, simple, and we don’t spam, ever. UPDATE: This feature is disabled for the moment because of overwhelming spam submissions. The tragedy of the commons and all that. At some point it’ll be re-enabled.


Any questions or comments? Please direct them to John. Surely you can figure out his email address!

Come back soon!

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If you don’t own the book yet, or would like to replace a copy your colleague refuses to return or pretends they’ve lost, you can purchase one directly from
Amazon.com.

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Your Stories,

Why not share some of your respirometric triumphs and disasters? We promise to treat the two imposters just the same – there’s something to be learned from failure and frustration, often more than is offered by easy success. Start thinking about ways you can communicate your experiences, good and bad, with metabolic rate measurement. Before long you’ll have a chance to share those experiences on this site.

Creatures in air (a few representative measurement challenges)

Other news

Do catch up with the site’s blog. Friends love it. Enemies hate it. I must be doing something right.

  • So I’ll be blogging again. Watch this space!

    This is just a quick note to let you know that after a scandalously long period of silence, I’ll be blogging on this site again. The reason for the long silence? Well, I’ve been extremely busy with new developments for metabolic measurement at Sable Systems, finishing the second edition of my definitive metabolic measurement textbook, […]

  • Continuous Metabolic Phenotyping – How Continuous is “Continuous”?

    UPDATE added June 2019: Since writing this blog post, I’ve re-thought the topic of continuous vs. multiplexed metabolic measurement! This post fails to consider the effect of the cage time constant, which substantially reduces, and sometimes entirely eliminates, the advantages of continuous vs. multiplexed metabolic measurement. I’ll be dealing with this topic in several upcoming […]

  • Authored by an undisputed master in the field

    This volume offers comparative physiologists a rare opportunity to possess a single cohesive volume of practical techniques in respirometry, authored by an undisputed master in the field. Lighton has compiled a comprehensive tome that fuses the history, theory, and practice of metabolic measurements. It will undoubtedly become an essential source in physiology for years to […]

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