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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.

Justifiable importance is not so important retrospectively.

Logic has a limit but Curiosity does not.

Stupidity and courage are all what you need for creativity.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Our current interests (May 2022)


Development is a series of nested self-organizing processes. So is Cancer.
Why does a frog egg always develop into a frog, but not a snake?

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SHAPE OF EPITHELIAL CELLS AND AGGREGATES

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WHAT IS CANCER?

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT AND OVARIAN CANCER

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GENOME AND EVOLUTION

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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

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