Prof. BESSHO Yasumasa
Please tell us about your own research and what you find interesting about it.
I’m thrilled when I come up with a hypothesis about a mysterious life phenomenon that I can explain well through discussions and my own thinking.
Please tell us about the difficulties and joys of the research field.
I enjoy discussing the results of my research. I don't have any difficulties.
Please tell us about the expected results and social significance of the project.
To clarify the operating principles of life phenomena and to use them for regenerative medicine and other applications.
A message of support for students who are about to take the exam
I believe that a lot of mysteries will be revealed in biology because of technological innovation. I urge everyone to solve the mysteries for themselves.
What websites, books, review articles, and so on, do you recommend for studying in order to apply for the lab ?
- Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself (Jamie A. Davies, OUP Oxford)
- Noise-resistant developmental reproducibility in vertebrate somite formation.
What do you do to keep yourself fresh?
Taking a walk in the hills behind my home.