• Fulbright fellow 1996-1999.
• 8th Annual Achievement award. 2001. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. University of California, Riverside.

• Tropical ecology and resources management. 1987-1988. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones sobre Recusos Bióticos (INIREB), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
• Ethnoecology of tropical trees and computerized management of the botanical information. January-December, 1990. University of California, Riverside.

• University of California, Riverside. Teaching assistant of Ethnobotany
• Universidad Veracruzana. Professor. Teaching experience in:
  Ethnobotany, Systematics

My main interests are Ethnobotany, Systematics, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology. I am interested in the study of neotropical biodiversity, specially in tropical rain forests where I have experience on tropical trees, cycads and Myxomycetes. I have experience in the use of ethnobotany, morphology and molecular biology as my main sources of data to describe and reconstruct patterns of variation in plants and Myxomycetes, to propose phylogenetic hypotheses and relate this information with geographical distribution and human interactions. I have experience conducting fieldwork especially in Mesoamerica where I have had the opportunity to work with several different cultural groups, among them are; Totonacs (Veracruz), Chinantecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs (Veracruz and Oaxaca), Chontals (Tabasco) Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Lacandon (Chiapas, Campeche and Quintana Roo), Maya from the Yucatan peninsula and Mestizos. More recently I started to work with the Quechua and Huaoranis in Ecuador. In Systematics, I have been involved in the theory of Systematics, phylogenetics, taxonomy and computerized tools for access and retrieval of biological information. In theoretical Systematics I have explored the ontological and epistemological implications of the use of classifications in ecological studies of biodiversity and the use of phylogenies in designing strategies for conservation biology. I am also interested in the study of species concepts, especially in regard to the dichotomy between unpractical but theoretically coherent concepts versus practical but theoretically unsustainable concepts.

• Ogata, N. , A. Suardíaz, R. Zárate, N. Dominguez & D. Canales. 2009. www.uv.mx/ethnobotany. A home page for learning Ethnobotany. Universidad Veracruzana.
• Ogata, N. , A. Suardíaz & R. Zárate. 2009. El cacao, un cultivo en peligro de desaparecer de México. Conociendo el Trópico. Universidad Veracruzana.
• Ogata, N. , A. Suardíaz & R. Zárate. 2009. Medicina Tradicional. Conociendo el Trópico. Universidad Veracruzana
• Galindo-Tovar , M. E., N. Ogata & A. M. Arzate-Fernandez. 2008. Some aspects of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) diversity and domestication in Mesoamerica. Genet Resour Crop Evol 55:441–450.
• Galindo-Tovar, M. E., A. M. Arzate-Fernández, N. Ogata & I. Landero-Torres. 2007. The avocado (Persea americana, Lauraceae) crop in Mesoamerica:10,000 years of history. Harvard Papers in Botany 12(2):325-334.
• Ogata N. 2007. Cacao. Biodiversitas 72:1-5. Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiveridad.
• Ogata, N., A. Gómez-Pompa & K. Taube. 2006. The Domestication of cacao in the Neotropics. In: McNeil, C. L. 2006. Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of Cacao. University Press of Florida.
• Gómez-Pompa, A., N. Ogata, R. Castro-Cortés. O. E. Plummer, J. P. Cahill, P. Lubinsky & J. Hlebakos. 2004. Plant-Human relationships. An interactive approach for learning and research. University of California, Riverside.
• Ogata, N. 2003. Domestication and distribution of the Chocolate tree (T. cacao L.) in Mexico. In: Gómez-Pompa, A., M Allen & S. Fedick (Eds.). Lowland Maya Area: Three millenia at the human-wildland interface. Haworth Press. New York.
• Stephenson, S. L. , A. Estrada-Torres, M. Schnittler, C. Lado, D. Wrigley de Basanta & N. Ogata. 2003. Distribution and ecology of Myxomycetes in the forests of Yucatan. In: Gómez-Pompa, A., M Allen & S. Fedick (Eds.). Lowland Maya Area: Three millenia at the human-wildland interface. Haworth Press. New York.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. , A. Vovides, N. Ogata, R. Castro-Cortés, A. Corona & J. S. González. 2000. Cycads: The endangered living fossils. CD ROM. (versiones en inglés y español). CONABIO-Gestión de Ecosistemas-University of California, Riverside.
• Ogata, N., A. Gómez-Pompa, A. Aguilar, R. Castro-Cortés & O. E. Plummer. 1999. Arboles Tropicales Comunes del Area Maya. Sistema de Identificación Taxonómica. CD-ROM. University of California, Riverside-CONABIO-Gestión de Ecosistemas, A. C.
• Ogata, N. y E. De Luna. 1998. Implicaciones ontológicas y epistemológicas del uso de clasificaciones en estudios ecológicos de biodiversidad. In: Halffter, G. (Comp.) 1998. La Diversidad Biológica de Iberoamérica II. Volumen Especial, Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie. 337 pags. Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, México.
• Sosa, V. y N. Ogata. 1998. "La sistemática y la conservación de la diversidad ecológica". In: Halffter, G. (Comp.) 1998. La Diversidad Biológica de Iberoamérica II. Volumen Especial, Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie. 337 pags. Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, México.
• Vovides, A. P., N. Ogata, V. Sosa & E. Peña-García. 1997. Pollination of endangered Cuban cycad Microcycascalocoma (Miq.) A. DC. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 125:201-210.
• Ogata, N., V. Rico-Gray & D. Nestel. 1996. Abundance, Richness, and Diversity of Myxomycetes in a Neotropical Forest Ravine. Biotropica 28(4b):627-635.
• Gómez-Pompa, A, J. S. González, N. Ogata, & A. Vovides. 1994. Las Cycadas de México. CD-ROM interactivo. Gestión de Ecosistemas-CONABIO.
• Ogata, N., D. Nestel, V. Rico-Gray & G. Guzmán 1994. Los Myxomycetes citados de México (The Myxomycetes cited from Mexico). Acta Botánica 27:39-51. I.S.S.N. 0187-7151.
• Ogata, N. 1993. Explicación alternativa de la distribución Brosimum alicastrum Sw. (Moraceae) en el centro de la Península de Yucatán. Biótica Nueva Epoca 1:103-107.