Technicians: 5

Assistant reserchers: 5

Animal caretakers (A wing): 7

Animal caretakers (B wing): 7

Office workers: 3

Tsukuba Bio Service staffs: 13

High grade laboratory animals that meet the experimental objectives and their constant breeding and experimental circumstances are essential factors to demonstrate accurate animal experimentation. Management of laboratory animal breeding and facility maintenance are fundamental operations of the Center. These include placing orders, installation, quarantine, breeding and care management, cleaning and sterilization of breeding equipments and hygiene control of facilities. “Care for animals with lives” continues endlessly.

In Research Support Section, technical staff with professional skills takes charge of the section and administrative and part-time workers together with temporary staff contribute to the services. We also provide users in school with technical supports such as developmental engineering technology and microbiological process.

Frozen preservation of embryos and sperms, in vitro fertilization, ovarian transplantation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, rederivation of mice from frozen embryos and sperms

● Microbiological quality control

Periodic microbial monitoring, quarantine and decontamination of animals, issuing health certificate

● Health control of animals

Disease prevention, diagnosis and veterinary care of animals

● Animal user traning for appopriate animal experimentation

Animal care guidance concerning animal welfare, tecfhnical traning of animal experiments