WCPP 2019 invited speaker TSUCHIYA YUICHIRO is a Designated associate professor at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules of Nagoya University. Prior to this position, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in different highly ranked institutes including the Department of Cell and Systems Biology of the University of Toronto, the Plant Science Center of the Yokohama Institute. He is interested in elucidating the Mechanism of strigolactone signal transduction in Striga, Evolution of parasitic plants Development of small-molecule probes for understanding plant parasitism.