SATO, Yutaka

Head, Genetic Resource Center

NIKI, Hironori

Division Head (Bioresource Management)

NONOMURA, Ken-ichi

Division Head (Plant Resource Development)

KOIDE, Tsuyoshi

Division Head(Development of Genetic-Engineered Mouse Resource)

KAWAMOTO, Shoko

Division Head (Bioresource Databases)

The Genetic Resource Center is composed of “Bioresource Management Division”, “Plant Resource Development Division”, “Division for Development of Genetic-Engineered Mouse Resource”, and “Bioresource Database Division”. The Bioresource Division takes responsibility for development, preservation and distribution of forefront bioresources of various organisms including E. coli/B. subtilis, Rice, Mouse, Drosophila, Zebrafish, C. elegans and Hydra, and of collected wild species of those organisms. The Database division makes the above information available to the public through web sites shown below. The Bioresource division participates actively in the “National Bioresource Project (NBRP)” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology, Japan, and takes a role for management of E. coli/B. subtilis, Rice, Drosophila and Zebrafish as central or sub-central organization for each organism in the project. Furthermore, the Database Division also contributes to NBRP as the national center of bioresource information, by taking responsibility for development and management of the relevant databases.