Yojiro Yamanaka, PhD

13 Oct 2017

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Research interests

  • Evolution and development of female reproductive tracts in vertebrates
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Microcirculation during puberty and regular hormonnal cycles and menopause

Dr. Yamanaka is a developmental biologist and cancer researcher. His research laboratory is at Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University. His research aims to understand the concepts shaping live organisms. He is interested in cellular shape, genome, development, evolution, and cancer. For the last 5 years, his lab is focusing on the development of the female reproductive tract and ovarian cancer initiation.

He completed his PhD in Medical Science at Osaka University, Japan in 1997, where he studied Interleukin-6 signal transduction. After a short postdoctoral training in Japan in developmental biology studying zebrafish dorsal-ventral axis specification, he joined Dr. Janet Rossant’lab at Mt. Sinai Hospital and then SickKids Hospital in Toronto to study mouse preimplantation development. In 2009, he was recruited to McGill University, Montreal. He is currently an Associate Professor at Goodman Cancer Institute, Department of Human Genetics. He is also the Scientific Director of McGill Integrated Core for Animal modeling (MICAM). He is a member of McGill Regenerative Medicine (MRM) Network and Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD).

My research aims to understand the concepts shaping live-organisms. I am interested in cellular shape, genome, development, evolution ad cancer.

Members of the laboratory

Alexandra Viscotchi
Undergraduate
alexandra.viscotchi@mail.mcgill.ca

Warwick Pitman
MSc/PhD student
warwick.pitman@mail.mcgill.ca

Stephanya Zimakas
MSc student
stephanya.zimakas@mail.mcgill.ca

Hengameh Kazemdarvish, MSc
PhD student
hengameh.kazemdarvish@mail.mcgill.ca

Keerthana Harwalkar
PhD student
keerthana.harwalkar@mail.mcgill.ca

Dardan Konjusha, PhD
Postdoc fellow
dardan.konjusha@mcgill.ca

Emily Tang, PhD
Postdoc fellow
emily.tang@mail.mcgill.ca

Nobuko Yamanaka, MSc
Research assistant
nobuko.yamanaka@mcgill.ca

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Bernard Robaire

Bernard Robaire, PhD

13 Oct 2017

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Research interests

  • Male reproductive ageing
  • Reproductive toxicology
  • Androgen action

Dr. Robaire’s research interests focus on the effects of environmental toxicants on male reproduction and on aging of the male reproductive system. This research activity has resulted in over 281 journal articles and book chapters, and editing/co-editing ten books. He is/has been a member of peer review groups for the NIH, MRC Canada, CIHR, FRSQ, FQRNT, and the Center for Alternative to Animal Testing of Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of several honours including the Distinguished Academic Award of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Distinguished Andrologist from the American Society of Andrology, the Jansen Distinguished Leadership and Service Award of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, Prix Guy Rocher (for the promotion and defense of the Quebec University) FQPPU. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and was elected Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2020.

Members of the laboratory

Heather Fice, MSc
PhD student
Heather.fice@mail.mcgill.ca

Braeden Giles, BSc
PhD student
braeden.giles@mail.mcgill.ca

Seline Vancolen, BSc
PhD student
seline.vancolen@mail.mcgill.ca

Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang, BSc
PhD student
Xiaotong.wang3@mail.mcgill.ca

Dongwei (Oscar) Yu, BSc
PhD student
Dongwei.yu@mail.mcgill.ca

Lama Iskandarani, MSc
Research assistant
Lama.iskandarani@mcgill.ca

Elise Boivin-Ford
Project Coordinator
elise.boivin-ford@mcgill.ca

Yunbo Zhang
Visiting professor
yunbo.zhang@mcgill.ca

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