Yoshio Masui

Professor Emeritus


Campus

St. George (downtown)

CSB Appointment

Emeritus

Research Areas

Cell Biology, Developmental Biology

Education

Ph.D. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 1961
B.Sc. Kyoto University 1953

Titles and Honors

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Primary Undergraduate Department

Biology, Konan University Kobe, Japan

Graduate Programs

Cell & Systems Biology
Neuroscience
Psychology

Research Description

Control of cell cycles in development and meiosis in oocytes in animals (1967-2005 no longer continued)


Contact Information

Office Phone: 416-978-3493
Office: RW601D
Email

Mailing Address

Department of Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto
25 Harbord St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G5
Canada


Publications

2009

From cell differentiation to the cell cycle: how failing in biochemistry led to success in morphology

Masui Y
2009, Nature cell biology, 11, 535, 19404333

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2005

Midblastula transition (MBT) of the cell cycles in the yolk and pigment granule-free translucent blastomeres obtained from centrifuged Xenopus embryos

Iwao Y, Uchida Y, Ueno S, Yoshizaki N, Masui Y
2005, Development, growth & differentiation, 47, 283-94, 16026537

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