Yuichiro Tsuchiya
Designated Professor
Website:https://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/Tsuchiya_G_HP/main.html
E-mail:yuichiro[at]itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @ when sending an email.)
Chemical biology in plants
The goal of my research is to save African farmers from a parasitic plant Striga hermonthica that has been causing a huge problem to the crop production in Africa.
The damage caused by the single species is devastating, as 10 billion USD worth of crops have been lost every year from the African continent and 300 million people's lives have been affected.
I have been studying the mechanism on how Striga identifies the presence of host plants and am utilizing the information to develop small molecules to destroy the host-parasite communication.
Using chemical genetics, I am trying to elucidate the signaling mechanism of strigolactones (SLs), which are released from the host root and stimulate Striga seed germination.
Profile
1997 | B.A.; Hokkaido University (Agriculture) |
1999 | M.Sc.; Hokkaido University (Agriculture) |
2002 | Ph.D.; Hokkaido University (Agriculture) |
2002-2006 | Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Canada |
2006-2009 | Special Postdoctoral Researcher; Riken Plant Science Center, Japan |
2009-2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada |
2013-2014 | ALCA Postdoctoral Fellow; Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University |
2014-2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow; WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University |
2015-2021 | Designated Associate Professor; WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University |
2021-present | Designated Professor; WPI-ITbM, Nagoya University |
- Members
- Yoshimura Group
- Yamaguchi Group
- Bode Group
- Crudden Group
- Frommer Group
- Itami Group
- Kamikouchi Group
- Hirota Group (collaborating with Kay)
- Kinoshita Group
- Ooi Group
- Tama Group
- Shimotohno Group (collaborating with Torii)
- Tsuchiya Group
- Yanai Group
- Laohavisit Group
- Mizuta Group
- Phung Group
- Kurihara Group
- Molecular Structure Center
- Live Imaging Center
- Chemical Library Center
- Peptide Protein Center
- Administrative Department
- Affiliated Researchers