Ikuo Hirono

About

Ikuo Hirono is a Professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan. His research primarily focuses on marine biology, with particular interest in shrimp health and disease, as evidenced by his recent work on muscular calcium homeostasis in Kuruma shrimp and the impacts of dietary supplements on immunity in Penaeus vannamei. He has also contributed to the understanding of bacterial communities in marine species and the genomic characteristics of pathogenic microbes affecting aquaculture.