Priya Chakrabarti Basu

Mom, Researcher, Mentor, Author

Priya Chakrabarti Basu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection, Mississippi State University. Priya is also a courtesy faculty at the Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University. Priya studies the interactive impacts of multiple stressors on bees, for example poor nutrition, pesticides, climate change and diseases. She uses a wide array of multidisciplinary techniques across fields such as physiology, toxicology, functional biology, multiomics-based approaches and neuroethology to address her research questions. She is currently serving as the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Association of Professional Apiculturists, Vice-President of Mississippi Entomological Association and the North American Chair of the nutrition taskforce for COLOSS, the international bee organization. She was also the past Chair of the Early Careers Professionals Committee of the Entomological Society of America. In addition to the research community, Priya enjoys teaching and working with stakeholders, policymakers and the general community in protecting bee pollinators and raising pollinator awareness. Priya is also a children’s book author to help spread pollinator awareness among young readers.