Dr Yuri Ogawa

Research Fellow

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Health and Medical Research Building

 

Yuri is a colour vision group lead at Insect Vision lab as a part of the South Australian Invertebrate Vision Collective.

Yuri came to Flinders in 2019. She did her PhD with Kentaro Arikawa in Japan, then a post doc with Jan Hemmi at UWA, and with Ajay Narendra at Macquarie. 

Yuri studies colour and motion vision in mate-seeking butterflies to understand how a viewer’s perspective (mobile/stationary) determines signal saliency and defines the features of the nervous system used to detect stimuli and mediate behavioural responses.

Yuri also studies how hoverflies detect and pursue the small target in visual clutter by recording from target neurons in the ventral nerve cord, which more directly affects behavioural output.

Qualifications

2013 PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan
2009 MSc Biology, Okayama University, Japan
2007 BSc Biology, Okayama University, Japan

Honours, awards and grants

Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP250104770), Kemp, Ogawa and Arikawa, “Detecting visual stimuli from mobile versus static perspectives”, 2025-2028

US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (FA9550-21-S-0001), Nordström and Ogawa, “Sensorimotor transformation: neurons, morphology and behavior”, 2023-2026

Australia & Pacific Science Foundation Grant, Kemp, Ogawa and Pirih, “A bio-inspired understanding of complex colour vision”, 2022-2024

Travel Award, The Contributing to Australian Scholarship and Science (CASS) Foundation, 2020
Hermon Slade Foundation, 2017-2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2014-2016
Tomiyuki Hara Travel Award, The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, 2014
Award for the Best Article, The Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, 2013
Postgraduate Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010-2012