Technical Office

Technical staff with a wide range of expertise belong to the Technical Office. Utilizing our specialized technology and knowledge, we support research activities in laboratories throughout the institute, and are in charge of various technical operations in the institute as follows.

• Holding technical seminars
• Outreach activities such as accepting tours of junior and senior high school students
• Support to the Office of Health and Safety
• Support for chemical substance management
• Support to the Genetically Modified Microorganism Support Office
• Support to the Radioisotope Center
• Management of large liquid nitrogen tanks
• Management of common equipment as detailed below

        a multiplex suspension array system
        a luminescence image analyzer
        a fluorescent microplate reader
        a real-time PCR apparatus
        an extracellular flux analyzer
        a microplate dispenser
        Various centrifuges
        Shaking incubators
        Ultra-low temperature freezers for emergency sample evacuation
        a scanning image analyzer
        a multimode plate reader
        a fluorescence image analyzer