Masashi OKAMURA

  • Born in Osaka, Japan in 1974.
  • Got DVM in 1998.
  • Got PhD in 2002.
  • Have worked as a postdoc in MD, USA in 2001 and 2002.
  • Living with my wife and 2 little boys.
  • Have been working with Salmonella and Campylobacter on prevention of their colonization in poultry and on risk analysis/assessment for food-borne salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis.
  • Started to work on host specificity and tissue tropism in bacterial pathogens.