TECHNICAL DIVISION

Head:

FURUKAWA, Kazuhiko

Common Facility Group

Research Support Facilities	HIGASHI,Sho-ichi (Unit Chief<LargeSpectrograph>
	NANBA,Chieko (Subunit Chief) <Plant Culture>
	NISHIDE,Hiroyo <Computer>
	NAKAMURA,Takanori <Large Spectrograph>
	SUZUKI,Keiko (Technical Assistant)
	MAKIHARA,Nobuko (Technical Assistant)
	ICHIKAWA,Chiaki (Technical Assistant)
	TAKESHITA, Miyako (Technical Assistant)
	NISHIMURA, Noriko (Technical Assistant)
Center for Analytical Instruments	MORI,Tomoko (Unit Chief)
	TAKAMI,Shigemi
	MORIBE,Hatsumi (Technical Assistant)
	DODO,Yukiko (Technical Assistant)
Transgenic Animal Facility	HAYASHI,Kohji (Subunit Chief)
	ICHIKAWA,Hiromi (Technical Assistant)
Disposal of Waste Matter Facility	(MATSUDA,Yoshimi (Unit Chief))
Radioisotope Facility	MATSUDA,Yoshimi (Unit Chief)
	SAWADA,Kaoru (Subunit Chief)
	IINUMA,Hideko
	ITO,Takayo (Technical Assistant)

Research Support Group

Chief:	KOBAYASHI, Hiroko
Department of Cell Biology	KONDO, Maki (Unit Chief)
	KABEYA, Yukiko (Subunit Chief)
Department of Developmental Biology	TAKAGI, Chiyo
	UTSUMI, Hideko
	OKA, Sanae
	NODA, Chiyo
Department of Neurobiology	OHSAWA, Sonoko (Unit Chief)
	TAKEUCHI, Yasushi (Subunit Chief)
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity	TANAKA, Sachiko (Unit Chief)
	YAMAGUCHI, Katsushi (Subunit Chief)
	MOROOKA, Naoki
	SUMIKAWA, Naomi
Department of Environmental Biology	MIZUTANI, Takeshi (Subunit Chief)
	KONDO, Makiko (Technical Assistant)
Department of Theoretical Biology	MIWA, Tomoki (Unit Chief)
Reception	KATAOKA, Yukari
	NAKANE, Kaori
	TSUZUKI, Shihoko
	HIRONAKA, Tomie
	MUKOHDA, Yasuyo
	UNO, Satoko

The Technical Division is a supporting organization for researchers and research organization within the NIBB. The Division develops and promotes the institute's research activities and at the same time, maintains the research functions of the institute.

The division is organized into two groups: one, the Common Facility Group, which supports and maintains the institute's common research facilities and the other, the Research Support Group, which assists the research activities as described in individual reports.

Technical staffs participate, through the division, in mutual enlightenment and education increase their capability in technical area. Each technical staff is proceeded to the fixed division usually and they support the various research with their special biological and biophysical techniques.

The Division hosts an annual meeting for technical engineers who work in various fields of biology at universities and research institutes throughout Japan. At this meeting,the participants present their own activities and discuss technical problems. The Proceedings are published soon after the meeting.