WELCOME TO YAMANAKA LAB
My research aims to understand the concepts shaping live-organisms. I am interested in cellular shape, genome, development, evolution and cancer.
My motto is
Don't be afraid of challenging the dogma
and being a minority.
We cannot conceive what we do not know. A real unknown is revealed only after its discovery. Stay humble and be curious. Logical thinking alone never takes you there. Without imagination, science will be boring.
Innovation is providing a solution without the problem. The problem is realized only after the solution.
Innovation is not solving a problem but making the problem disappear without solving it.
Logic has a limit but Curiosity does not.
What is the best way to think outside the box?
-- being outside the box.
Stupidity and courage are all what you need for creativity.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Our current interests (May 2022)
Development is a self-organizing process. So is Cancer.
Why does a frog egg always develop into a frog, but not a snake?
CONTACT ME
Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute
Department of Human Genetics
McGill University
1160 Pine Avenue West, rm419, Montreal, QC, H3A1A3, CANADA
To a smart student :
Don't bother yourself.
Our questions are incorrect in the current textbooks. Not good for your GPA.
To a curious nerd :
Your curiosity will be satisfied. Join us!
yojiro.yamanaka"at"mcgill.ca
514-398-8776