TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Head: HATTORI, Hiroyuki

Common Facility Group

Chief : FURUKAWA, Kazuhiko

• Reseach Support Facilities
  HIGASHI, Sho-Ichi (Unit Chief)
  NANBA, Chieko (Subunit Chief)
  NISHIDE, Hiroyo
  IINUMA, Hideko
  SUZUKI, Keiko (Technical Assistant)
  MAKIHARA, Nobuko (Technical Assistant)
  YAGI, Eri (Technical Assistant)
  ICHIKAWA, Chiaki (Technical Assistant)
  YAMAMOTO, Mamiko (Technical Assistant)
  HARADA, Miyuki (Technical Assistant)
  

• Radioisotope Facility
  MATSUDA, Yoshimi (Unit Chief)
  KATO, Yousuke (Subunit Chief)
  ITOH, Takayo (Technical Assistant)

• Center for Analytical Instruments
  MORI, Tomoko (Unit Chief)
  MAKINO, Yumiko
  TAKAMI, Shigemi
  NAKAMURA, Takanori
  MORIBE, Hatsumi (Technical Assistant)

• Glassware Washing Facility
  (KATO, Yousuke )
  (FURUKAWA, Kazuhiko)

Research Support Group

Chief : KOBAYASHI, Hiroko

• Cell Biology Group
  KONDO, Maki (Unit Chief)
  KABEYA, Yukiko

• Developmental Biology Group
  TAKAGI, Chiyo
  OKA, Sanae

• Regulation Biology Group
  YAMAGUCHI, Katsushi
  TAKEUCHI, Yasushi

• Gene Expression and Regulation Group I
  MIWA, Tomoki (Unit Chief)
  TANAKA, Sachiko (Subunit Chief)
  HAYASHI, Koji
  MOROOKA, Naoki

• Gene Expression and Regulation Group II
  OHSAWA, Sonoko (Unit Chief)
  SAWADA, Kaoru (Subunit Chief)
  SUMIKAWA, Naomi
  MIKI, Kazuhiko

• Integrated Bioscience Group
  MIZUTANI, Takeshi
  UTSUMI, Hideko
  NODA, Chiyo
  KONDO, Makiko (Technical Assistant)

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

The department 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 department, 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 Department 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.