Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  okawa.nanako.2fkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 31 Mar. 2020

  甲南大学修士（理学）
• 31 Mar. 2023

  甲南大学博士（理学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 甲南大学, 理工学部生物学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science Division of Biological Sciences, 特定研究員（日本学術振興会特別研究員PD）
• From Apr. 2024, To Mar. 2025

  Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Specially Appointed Researcher, JSPS Research Fellow
• From Apr. 2022, To Mar. 2024

  Konan University, The Graduate School of Natural Science, 日本学術振興会特別研究員DC2/PD
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2023

  Konan University, The Graduate School of Natural Science, 博士課程

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  202401011293233974

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/nanako-okawa

Research

Research Interests

• Ascidian (Ciona)
• Optogenetics
• Calcium imaging
• glial cells
• Neurophysiology

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Molecular biology
• Life sciences, Animals: biochemistry, physiology, behavioral science
• Life sciences, Neuroscience - general

Papers

• Periodic Activity of Gnrh-Expressing Neurons in the Ciona Brain: Insights into the Origin of Neural Crest Derived GnRH Neurons in Vertebrates.

  Nanako Okawa; Atsushi Kuhara; Takehiro G Kusakabe

  Zoological science, Feb. 2026

  
• Evolution of Developmental Programs for the Midline Structures in Chordates: Insights From Gene Regulation in the Floor Plate and Hypochord Homologues of Ciona Embryos.

  Kouhei Oonuma; Maho Yamamoto; Naho Moritsugu; Nanako Okawa; Megumi Mukai; Miku Sotani; Shuto Tsunemi; Haruka Sugimoto; Eri Nakagome; Yuichi Hasegawa; Kotaro Shimai; Takeo Horie; Takehiro G Kusakabe

  Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021

  
• Cellular identity and Ca2+ signaling activity of the non-reproductive GnRH system in the Ciona intestinalis type A (Ciona robusta) larva.

  Nanako Okawa; Kotaro Shimai; Kohei Ohnishi; Masamichi Ohkura; Junichi Nakai; Takeo Horie; Atsushi Kuhara; Takehiro G Kusakabe

  Scientific reports, 29 Oct. 2020