A staff of highly dedicated technicians, administrators and specialists is providing their knacks to the research groups across the institute. Diversified in skill and training, the individuals of these groups operate the laboratories, train young researchers on advanced technologies, attend to the animals’ welfare, assist scientists in designing practical solutions for novel experiments, they help organize conferences and events, mediate science to the public, coordinate the institutes Master program, support project proposals and keep track of economical and organizational matters.

These are the workers the Directors fondly refers to as the hippocampus of the institute, archiving information from short-term memory, retrieving knowledge from long-term memory, establishing long-term potentiation of preparedness based on recent activities, and in general providing cues used for navigation and speed by the leaders.