Kenro OshimaDr. Kenro Oshima is Plant Pathology professor at the Hosei University, Japan. He has 20 years of research experience on plant pathology especially on the genomes and pathogenicity of phytoplasmas. He has more than 60 peer reviewed international publiations and has delivered numerous oral and posters presentations in national and international meetings. He and his group determined the first complete genome sequence of phytoplasma and found that the phytoplasma has lost many genes of metabolic pathway in the process of evolution. They also discovered the virulence factors of phytoplasmas such as TENGU and PHYL1 and clarified its mechanism of action. He is a member of the International Phytoplasma Working Group (IPWG) andhas participated in the revision of the 'Candidatus Phytoplasma'species description guidelines in 2022. He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology for the section of Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology. He was awarded as Kitamoto Award from Japanese Society of Mycoplasmology in 2018 and the Society Award from Phytopathological Society of Japan in 2021. Read More Read Less