Dr. Basu's Lab

LABORATORY OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ASTROBIOLOGY RESEARCH

Dr. Chhandak Basu

Dept. of Biology

California State University, Northridge

Research Affiliate

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Origins and Habitability Laboratory (2020-present)

Visiting Faculty, Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (June-August, 2023)

Member, International Standards for Space Omics Processing

Board of Directors: American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (2021-2023)

Visiting Associate Professor: Department of Earth Systems Science, University of California, Irvine (Fall 2019)

Ph.D., University of Rhode Island

Post Doctoral Training: University of Tennessee

National Award

Council on Undergraduate Research: Biology mentor award

Review editor:

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

E-mail: chhandak.basu AT csun.edu

Phone: (818) 677-4592

Fax: (818) 677-2034

Office: Citrus Hall 3218A

Lab: Citrus Hall 3218

Selected news release

Chhandak Basu, PhD, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's WhoOctober 27, 2021 -- Dr. Basu has been endorsed by Marquis Who's Who as a leader in the fields of biology, research and higher education

USDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash cropCSUN plant biologist Chhandak Basu and colleagues at Alabama A&M University have received funding to continue a project developing turmeric as a cash crop for the Deep South. Turmeric, Cucurma …

Trees Eat Pollution Better Than ExpectedSome common and dangerous air pollutants found in cities can be absorbed by plants at far greater rates than ever suspected.

Selected news release

Scientists Secure NASA Grant to Explore Astrobiology Through Student Training and Mentorship - AstrobiologyDr. Chhandak Basu, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and Dr. Scott Perl, a Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have been awarded a nationally competitive grant of $316,000 from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. With an emphasis on student training and mentorship, the grant, entitled […]

Boosting expression of a key gene may help plants survive a soakingPlants engineered to produce more of a key growth-regulating hormone tolerated flooding for almost twice as long siblings without the boost, CSUN biologists report in a paper just published in the …

Dr. Basu's books

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Dr. Basu's educational YouTube Videos

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