Shigeyuki Betsuyaku completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jane Parker at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in 2005. After two years of Postdoctoral training there, he joined Dr. Shinichiro Sawa’s group at the University of Tokyo as a postdoctoral researcher working on CLAVATA signaling. In 2010, he initiated his own project on the spatio-temporal analysis of plant immune responses in Dr. Hiroo Fukuda’s group at the University of Tokyo. In 2016, Shige became an Associate Professor within Dr. Nobuhiko Nomura’s group at the University of Tsukuba, where he aims to further uncover the cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions.