Paramita Basu is an assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, and serves as the chair of the curriculum committee at the Touro College of Pharmacy.

Clinical Specialty

• Cell & molecular biology
• Microbiology
• Physiology
• Biotechnology

Education

• PhD, Biological Sciences, St. John's University, NY 2008
• MSBiological Sciences St. John's University, NY 2003
• MTech, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, India, 2001

Honors and Awards

Internal grant 2011: $5000 – Touro College Faculty Research Fund administered through the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)

Research

• Bacterial stress resistance; Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms

Recent Publications

• Hirshfield, I., Basu, P. and Barua, S. (2007). Overview of Biofilms and Some Key Methods for Their Study. Handbook of Applied Biomedical Microbiology: A Biofilms Approach. CRC Press.
• Basu, P. and Hirshfield, I. Effect of Heat Shock in Survival of E. coli in Acid Stress. (2011). Int J Appl Sci & Tech. 1(6): 21-31.
• Basu, P. (2013). Antibiotic Resistance: The Impact on the Environment and Sustainability. Int J Env Sustainability. 8(3): 117-135.
• Saxena, J., Basu, P., Jaligam, V. and Chandra, S. (2013). Phospate solubilization by a few fungal strains belonging to the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. Afr J Microbiol Res. 7(41): 4862- 4869.
• Basu, P., Barua, S. and Hirshfield, I. (2014). Overview of Biofilms and Some Key Methods for Their Study. In: Goldman, E., Green L.H. (Ed). Practical Handbook of Microbiology. 2nd Edition. CRC Press; 2014. (Invited book chapter submitted in 2013, revised and accepted in 2014, currently in press).
• Babayeva, M., Fuzailov, M., Rozenfeld, P., and Basu, P. (2014). Marijuana Compounds: A Non-Conventional Therapeutic Approach to Epilepsy in Children. J Addict Neuropharmacol 1: 002-36

Teaching Responsibilities

Physiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, cell & molecular biology, biotechnology, research methods 

Hobbies

Writing for local magazines and blogs, raising public health awareness, music, theatre, cooking

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