Ikuo Igarashi Obihiro
University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan
Biography
Dr. Ikuo Igarashi is currently a Professor at the National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan and an OIE expert for equine piroplasmosis and bovine babsiosis. He has been done researches on the in vitro cultivation of Babesia and Theileria and its application for drug screening. In addition, he is investigating the molecular mechanisms of invasion and multiplication of Babesia parasites in red blood cells and the development of highly specific and sensitive serological and molecular diagnostic assays. He has published more than 250 parasitology papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, book chapters, and patents. He has been also serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Veterinary Parasitology since 2005 and an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE from 2012 to 2015. He is currently a Co-Editor-in-Chief for Veterinary Parasitology.