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Kenichi Tsuda is Professor at College of Plant Science and Technology in Huazhong Agricultural University and Researcher at State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory. His major research fields are plant immunity and plant microbiota. His contribution is represented by more than 80 publications with over 8000 citations and h-index of 43 (Clarivate Web of Science) such as in Nature Plants, Nature Commun, Cell Host & Microbe, PNAS, Plant Cell, EMBO J, EMBO Rep, PLoS Genet, Annu Rev Phytopathol, and Curr Opin Plant Biol. He has been selected for Foreign National High Talents program and Foreign Hubei High Talents program in 2020 and named in the Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Web of Science) and Most Cited Chinese Researchers list (ELSEVIER, Scopus). Researchers with PhD in plant science, microbiology, or bioinformatics are encouraged to apply for postdoc positions in the Tsuda lab (tsuda@mail.hzau.edu.cn).
Lab webpage: https://www.plantimmunity.cn
Research and Education
2021/07 - now Researcher, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, China
2019/09 - now Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, China
2019/09 - now Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
2019/01 - 2019/08 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
2011/12 - 2018/12 Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
2005/04 - 2011/11 Postdoc, University of Minnesota, USA
2004/10 - 2005/03 Postdoc, Hokkaido University, Japan
2001/04 - 2004/09 PhD, Hokkaido University, Japan
1999/04 - 2001/03 Msc, Hokkaido University, Japan
1995/04 - 1999/03 Bsc, Hokkaido University, Japan
Funding
2022-2026 National Key R&D Program of China, 800,000 RMB
2023-2024 Research Fund for International Senior Scientists (NSFC), 1,600,000 RMB
2022-2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), general program, 580,000 RMB
2021-2024 Joint Funding of Huazhong Agricultural University and Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SZYJY2021007), 800,000 RMB
2020 The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Program No. 2662020ZKPY009), 200,000 RMB
2019 The Huazhong Agricultural University Scientific & Technological Self-innovation Foundation
2018-2021 Principal investigator, SPP2125 "DECRyPT" (401817050), total 218,700 EURO for the direct cost
2014-2018 Principal investigator, SFB670 TP32 (3621643211), total 212,800 EURO for the direct cost
Award
1. Chinese Government Friendship Award （2024）
2. Hubei Government Chime Bell Award （2023）
3. Most Cited Chinese Researchers (ELSEVIER, Scopus; 2021, 2022, 2023)
4. Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Web of Science; 2021, 2022, 2024)
5. Foreign National High Talents program（2020）
6. Foreign Hubei High Talents program（2020）
7. Global Peer Review Awards（Web of Science）（2018，2019）
Service/Outreach
Reviewing Editor of eLife [since November 2023]
Advisory Editorial Board member of EMBO Reports [since January 2022]
Affiliates of bioRxiv [since May 2023]
The Advisory Board of Review Commons (http://reviewcommons.org) [since December 2019]
Editorial board member (Editor) of Plant and Cell Physiology [January 2021-December 2024]
Senior Editor (Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions) [since January 2023]
Editorial board member of iMeta [since October 2022]
Editorial board member of Crop Health [since May 2023]
Editorial board member of Stress Biology [since January 2023]
Editorial board member of Journal of Genetics and Genomics [since January 2023]
Associate Editor of Phytopathology Research [November 2023 – October 2026]
Editorial board member of Journal of Plant Research [since January 2018]
Editorial board member of Journal of General Plant Pathology [since January 2024]
Manuscript reviews for Nature, Cell, Science Adv, PNAS, Curr Biol, EMBO J, Nature Plants, PLoS Biol, Nature Commun, eLife, Plant Cell, EMBO Rep, Dev Cell, Nucl Acid Res, Curr Opin Plant Biol, Science Bulletin, Biotechnol Adv, Plant J, Plant Physiol, New Phytol, Mol Plant , etc... https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-2453-2009
Grant reviews for European Research Council (ERC), National Science Foundation (NSF), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), The French National Research Agency (ANR), etc…
Representative papers
Entila F, Han X, Mine A, Schulze-Lefert P, Tsuda K*: Commensal lifestyle regulated by a negative feedback loop between Arabidopsis ROS and the bacterial T2SS. Nature Communications, 15: 456 (2024)
Nobori T, Cao Yu, Entila F, Dahms E, Tsuda Y, Garrido-Oter R, Tsuda K*: Dissecting the co-transcriptome landscape of plants and their microbiota. EMBO Rep, e55380 (2022)
Winkelmüller TM, Entila F, Anver S, Piasecka A, Song B, Dahms E, Sakakibara H, Gan X, Kułak K, Sawikowska A, Krajewski P, Tsiantis M, Garrido-Oter R, Fukushima K, Schulze-Lefert P, Laurent S, Bednarek P, Tsuda K*: Gene expression evolution in pattern-triggered immunity within Arabidopsis thaliana and across Brassicaceae species. Plant Cell, 33: 1863-1887 (2021)
Yu P, He X Baer M, Beirinckx S, Tian T, Moya YAT, Zhang X, Deichmann M, Frey FP, Bresgen V, Li C, Razavi BS, Schaaf G, von Wiren N, Su Z, Bucher M, Tsuda K, Goormachtig S, Chen X*, Hochholdinger F*: Plant flavones enrich rhizosphere Oxalobacteraceae to improve maize performance under nitrogen deprivation. Nature Plants, 7: 481-499 (2021)
Nobori T, Wang Y, Wu J, Christina Stolze S, Tsuda T, Finkemeier I, Nakagami H, Tsuda K*: Multidimensional gene regulatory landscape of a bacterial pathogen in plants. Nature Plants, 6: 883-896 (2020)
Wang Y, Garrido-Oter R, Wu J, Winkelmuller TM, Agler M, Colby T, Nobori T, Kemen E, Tsuda K*: Site-specific cleavage of bacterial MucD by secreted proteases mediates antibacterial resistance in Arabidopsis. Nature Commun, 10: 2853 (2019)
Berens ML, Wolinska KW, Spaepen S, Ziegler J, Nobori T, Nair A, Krüler V, Winkelmüller TM, Wang Y, Mine A, Becker D, Garido-Oter R, Schulze-Lefert P*, Tsuda K*: Balancing trade-offs between biotic and abiotic stress responses through leaf age-dependent variation in stress hormone crosstalk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 116: 2364-2373 (2019)
Wang Y, Schuck S, Wu J, Yang P, Döring AC, Zeier J*, Tsuda K*: A MPK3/6-WRKY33-ALD1-Pipecolic acid Regulatory Loop Contributes to Systemic Acquired Resistance. Plant Cell, 10: 2480-2494 (2018)
Mine A, Seyfferth C, Kracher B, Berens ML, Becker D, Tsuda K*: The Defense Phytohormone Signaling Network Enables Rapid, High-amplitude Transcriptional Reprogramming During Effector-Triggered Immunity. Plant Cell, 30: 1199-1219 (2018)
Nobori T, Velásquez AC, Wu J, Kvitko BH, Kremer JM, Wang Y, He SY*, Tsuda K*: Transcriptome landscape of a bacterial pathogen under plant immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,115: E3055-E3064 (2018)
Huot B, Castroverde CDM, Velásquez AC, Hubbard E, Pulman JA, Yao J, Childs KL, Tsuda K, Montgomery BL, He SY*: Dual impact of elevated temperature on plant defence and bacterial virulence in Arabidopsis. Nature Commun, 8: 1808 (2017)
Mine A, Berens ML, Nobori T, Anver S, Fukumoto K, Winkelmüller TM, Takeda A, Becker D, Tsuda K*: Pathogen exploitation of an abscisic acid- and jasmonate-inducible MAPK phosphatase and its interception by Arabidopsis immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 114: 7456-7461 (2017)
Mine A, Nobori T, Salazar-Rondon MC, Winkelmüller TM, Anver S, Becker D, Tsuda K*: An incoherent feed-forward loop mediates robustness and tunability in a plant immune network. EMBO Rep, 18: 464-476 (2017)
Kim Y, Tsuda K, Igarashi D, Hillmer RA, Sakakibara H, Myers CL, Katagiri F*: Mechanisms underlying robustness and tunability in a plant immune signaling network. Cell Host & Microbe, 15: 84-94 (2014)
Tsuda K*, Mine A, Bethke G, Igarashi D, Botanga CJ, Tsuda Y, Glazebrook J, Sato M, Katagiri F: Dual regulation of gene expression mediated by extended MAPK activation and salicylic acid contributes to robust innate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet, 9: e1004015 (2013)
Tsuda K, Qi Y, Nguyen LV, Bethke G, Tsuda Y, Glazebrook J, Katagiri F*: An efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of Arabidopsis. Plant J, 69: 713-719 (2012)
Tsuda K, Sato M, Stoddard T, Glazebrook J, Katagiri F*: Network properties of robust immunity in plants. PLoS Genet, 5: e1000772 (2009)
Tsuda K, Sato M, Glazebrook J, Cohen JD, Katagiri F*: Interplay between MAMP-triggered and SA-mediated defense responses. Plant J, 53: 763-775 (2008)
