Conference Presentations

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

(Superscript ‘G’= Graduate student co-authors, superscript ‘UG’= Undergraduate student co-authors)

A. Conference Abstracts (Presented at conferences within the USA)

1. 1. Patel L., G Shaurya F. N. U., G Hein M. Nagalingam S. G, Guenther A., Basu, C. Molecular Physiology of Halobacterium Salinarum and Dunaliella Salina. Lunar and Planetary Science: Astrobiology and the Future of Life Meeting. October 15-17, 2024. Houston, TX. (Role: Presenter)
  2. Hein M. J G. Nagalingam S. Guenther A. Basu C. Examining Gene Expression, Growth, and Production of Pigments in Dunaliella Salina Cultures in Response to Abiotic Stresses Relevant to Astrobiology. Lunar and Planetary Science: Astrobiology and the Future of Life Meeting. October 15-17, 2024. Houston, TX. (Role: Co-author)
  3. Patel L G., Shaurya G, Nagalingam S. Guenther A. Basu C. Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 Under Inhabitable Conditions. Lunar and Planetary Science: Astrobiology and the Future of Life Meeting. October 15-17, 2024. Houston, TX. (Role: Co-author)
  4. Chhandak Basu, Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Alex B Guenther, Lipi PatelG, FNU ShauryaG and Scott M Perl. (2024) Molecular physiological responses of Halobacterium salinarum to environmental stresses. Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon). May 5-10, 2024. Providence, RI. (Role: Presenter)
  5. Kirill Musaev G, Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Alex Guenther and Chhandak Basu. (2024) Molecular and Physiological Responses of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) Plants to Heat Stress. American Society for Plant Biologists Western Section Annual Meeting. March 23, 2024. Long Beach. (Role: Co-author)
  6. MacKenzie Hein G, Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Alex Guenther, Chhandak Basu. (2024) Towards an assessment of the ability of Dunaliella salina to produce value-added compounds when subjected to abiotic stress. American Society for Plant Biologists Western Section Annual Meeting. March 23, 2024. Long Beach. (Role: Co-author)
  7. Ramirez, A. G, Patel, L. G, Basu, Bezryadina, A. (2023) Nonlinear optical properties of DNA suspensions. SPIE Optics + Photonics. 20 - 24 August 2023, San Diego, CA.
  8. Patel L.G, Shaurya F. N. U.G, Nagalingam S., Guenther A., Scott P., Basu C. Molecular And Genetic Analysis Of Halobacterium salinarun NRC 1 Under Cold And Dark Stress Conditions: Potentials For Astrobiology. August 15, 2023. Cal State University (CSU) Summer Symposium and Graduate Program Fair at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA. (Role: co-author),
  9. Patel L.G, Shaurya F. N. U.G, Nagalingam S., Guenther A., Scott P., Basu C. Molecular And Genetic Analysis Of Halobacterium salinarun NRC 1 Under Cold And Dark Stress Conditions: Potentials For Astrobiology Research. CSUN-posium. August 15, 2023. California State University, Northridge, CA. (Role: co-author)
  10. Ramirez A.G, Patel L.G, Chhandak Basu C., Bezryadina. Optical Properties of DNA Suspensions. August 15, 2023. Cal State University (CSU) Summer Symposium and Graduate Program Fair at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA. (Role: co-author)
  11. B. M. Javier G, S. M. Perl, C. Basu, W. Fischer, A. J. Celestian. (2023) Biosignature preservation potential of li-containing hypersaline environments. Ancient and Future Brines Conference. May 15-18, 2023. Reno, Nevada. (Role: Co-author)
  12. B. M. Javier G, S. M. Perl, C. Basu, W. Fischer, A. J. Celestian. (2023) Detection and preservation of extremophile biosignatures in lithium-bearing evaporites for life detection. (2023) Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 13-17, 2023. The Woodlands, TX. (Role: Co-author)
  13. Perl, S. et al. (2023) Microbial pigment robustness in martian and ocean worlds brines and evaporites. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 13-17, 2023. The Woodlands, Texas. (Role: Co-author)
  14. Lipi Patel G, FNU Shaurya G, Scott M. Perl and Chhandak Basu. (2023) Cloning and characterization of arsenite efflux transporter metallochaperone arsD- related protein from Halobacterium salinarum. Annual Meeting of California State University Program in Education and Research in Biotechnology. Santa Clara, January 12-14, 2023. (Role: Co-author)
  15. Hein, M. G, Perl, S., Basu, C. (2023) Production of cold-tolerant strains of Dunaliella salina through genetic transformation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. To be presented at the annual meeting of California State University Program in Education and Research in Biotechnology. Santa Clara, January 12-14, 2023. (Role: Co-author)
  16. Basu, C., Perl, S. (2022). Metagenomic analysis of extremophile microbes collected from the Great Salt Lake planetary analog site and use of model microbes in astrobiological studies. AbSciCon22 (Astrobiology Scientific Conference). Atlanta, GA. May 16-18, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  17. Basu, C. Transcriptomic responses of Paulownia and turmeric under various abiotic stress conditions. Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Presenter.
  18. Bharadwaj, B., Basu, C. (2022). Physiological and Transcriptomic Analysis of Turmeric plants (Curcuma longa) under Drought Stress. Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  19. Musaev, K. G, Basu, C. (2022). Transcriptomic and Physiological Effects of Heat Stress on Turmeric (Curcuma longa). Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  20. Hein, M. G, Perl, S., Basu, C. (2022).Transcriptomic analysis of Dunaliella salina under salt and UV stresses. Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  21. FNU, Shaurya, Bharadwaj, B., Basu, C. (2022). Towards genetic engineering of sunflower lineage to produce biodiesel. Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  22. Mishegyan, A. G, Bharadwaj, B. G, Basu, C. (2022). Genetic and Physiological Responses of Lentil Plants under Flood Stress. Annual Meeting of Society of In Vitro Biology. San Diego. June 4-7, 2022. Role: Co-author.
  23. Sanjeevi Nagalingam G, Roger Seco, Kirill Musaev, Chhandak Basu, Saewung Kim, Alex Guenther. Impact of heat stress on gene expression and foliar BVOC emission of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) seedlings. Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union. December 13-17, 2021, New Orleans, LA. (Role: Co-author)
  24. Perl, S. et al. Preservation of dynamic biological processes from extant halophilic life: in situ lessons learned from planetary analogue brines and evaporites. Modern Brines Conference (Virtual) October 25-28, 2021. (Role: Co-author)
  25. Kirill Musaev G, Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Alex Guenther, and Chhandak Basu. Differential expression of terpene synthase genes and analysis of emissions of volatiles in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) under heat stress. 10th Annual Meeting of American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (Virtual), June 24-25, 2021. (Role: Co-author)
  26. Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Chinmoy Sarkar, Roger Seco, Das Gu, Yisheng Zhang, Chhandak Basu, Jesus Campos, Anne Mielnik, Saewung Kim and Alex Guenther. BVOC response of terrestrial vegetation to moderate and extreme heat stress events. Annual meeting of American Geophysical Union. December 9-13, 2019, San Francisco, CA. (Role: Co-author)
  27. Cerda, ChristopherUG, Destinney CoxG, and Chhandak Basu. Synthesis and evaluation of germacrene, a potential biodiesel compound, in Arabidopsis thaliana. Annual Meeting of California State University Program in Education and Research in Biotechnology. Santa Clara, January, 2019. (Role: Co-author)
  28. Destinney CoxG, Cerda, ChristopherUG, and Chhandak Basu Germacrene synthase gene expression patterns in heat stressed sunflower (Helianthus annuus). 43rd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSURC), Moraga, USA. April 14, 2018. (Role: Co-author)
  29. Dunkel, RyanUG, Ramadoss, Niveditha and Basu, Chhandak. Understanding the role of ethylene in flood tolerance in lentils. 43rd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSURC), Moraga, USA. April 14, 2018. (Role: Co-author)
  30. Destinney CoxG and Chhandak Basu. Germacrene synthase gene expression patterns in heat stressed sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Western region meeting of American Society for Plant Biologists, Pomona, CA, February 2018.
  31. Expression analysis of heat stress inducible genes in Paulownia elongata, Ramadoss, Niveditha; Gupta, Dinesh; Cooper,Kerry; Basu, Chhandak; Western region meeting of American Society for Plant Biologists, Pomona, CA, February 2018. (Role: Co-author))
  32. Development of flood tolerant Arabidopsis thaliana by overexpression of the ACO (overexpressing aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase) gene. Ramadoss, Niveditha; Gupta, Dinesh; Joshee,Nirmal; Vaidya, N. Brajesh, Basu, Chhandak; CSU Annual Biotechnology Symposium 30th Symposium, Santa Clara, USA. January 11-13, 2018. (Role: Co-author) 
  33. Roger Seco, Dasa Gu, Eva Joo, Sanjeevi Nagalingam, Beatriz Aristizabal, Chhandak Basu, Saewung Kim, Alex Guenther. First biogenic VOC flux results from the UCI Fluxtron plant chamber facility. Annual meeting of American Geophysical Union. New Orleans, LA, December, 2017. (Role: Co-author) 
  34. Ramadoss, NivedithaG., Gupta, DineshG., Guenther, Alex., Basu, Chhandak. Overexpression of an aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase gene in Arabidopsis thaliana and its effect on removing environmental pollutants. Presented in in the Annual Meeting of California State University Program in Education and Research in Biotechnology. Santa Clara, January 5-7, 2017. (Role: Co-author)
  35. Michel Chaires Kerry Cooper, Nirmal Joshee, Dinesh GuptaG,Chhandak Basu Differential Expression of Salt Stress Induced Genes in Paulownia elongata. 24th. Plant and Animal Genome Conference. January 9-13, 2016. San Diego, CA. (Role: Presenter)
  36. Chhandak Basu, Kerry Cooper, Dinesh GuptaG and Nirmal Joshee. Genome wide analysis of gene stress inducible genes in Paulownia elongata. The 3rd. Plant Genomics Congress. September 14-15, 2015, St. Louis, MO. (Role: Presenter)
  37. GuptaG, Dinesh., Ip, Tina., Summers, Michael, L., Basu, Chhandak. (2014) Production of Economically Important Isoprenoids in Escherichia coli and Nostoc punctiforme by Expressing a 2-Methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MBO) Synthase Gene. Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy. San Diego, CA. December 7-9, 2014. (Role: Co-author)
  38. HemmatiG, Homa, and Basu, Chhandak. (2014). Transcriptional analysis of an ethanol inducible promoter in Escherichia coli and tobacco. Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy. San Diego, CA. December 7-9, 2014. (Role: Co-author)
  39. Dinesh GuptaG and Michael L. Summers, Chhandak Basu. Production of 2-Methyl-3-buten-2-ol, a potential biofuel in Escherichia coli. Presented in in the Annual Meeting of California State University Program in Education and Research in Biotechnology. Santa Clara, January 9-11, 2014. (Role: Co-author)
  40. Chhandak Basu, Dinesh GuptaG and Michael L. Summers. 2-Methyl-3-buten-2-ol expression analysis in cyanobacteria and tobacco plants. Annual meeting of American Society for Plant Biologists. Providence, RI July 20-24, 2013. (Role: Presenter)
  41. Sam ZwengerG, Erich HoffmannUG, and Chhandak Basu. 2011. Transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana with heat stress-related genes from a Copaifera officinalis using a novel "binary library" approach. Annual Meeting of American Society of Botany. St. Louis, MO. July 9-13, 2011. (Role: Co-author)
  42. Thomas Karl, Peter Harley, Luisa Emmons, Brenda ThorntonG, Chhandak Basu, Alex Guenther, Andrew Turnipseed and Kolby Jardine. 2010. Dry depositional sink of oxidized organic vapors to vegetation. Fall meeting of American Geophysical Union in San Francisco (December 13-17, 2010). (Role: Co-author)
  43. Brenda ThorntonG, Alex Guenther, Peter Harley, James Greenberg, Chhandak Basu. 2010. Analysis of stress-induced transcripts and biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in tropical Hymenaea courbaril and coniferous Pinus ponderosa. Presented in the International Association of Plant Biotechnology Congress 2010, St. Louis, Missouri (June 6-12, 2010). (Role: Presenter)
  44. Sam ZwengerG, Chhandak Basu. Development of a cDNA library from Salsola kali. 2010. Abstract for the Annual Meeting of Weed Science Society of America (Denver, Feb 7-11, 2010). (Role: Presenter)
  45. ThorntonG, Brenda.,Guenther, Alex., Harley, Peter., Greenberg, James., Basu, Chhandak. 2009. Identification of candidate transcription factors involved in the regulation of mono and sesquiterpene in Pinus Ponderosa and Copaifera langsdorfii. Book of abstracts for the International Plant Molecular Biology Congress, St. Louis, Missouri (October 25-30, 2009) (Role: Co-author)
  46. HartUG, Shanion., Retana-RamirezUG, Silvia., Basu, Chhandak. 2009. BFN1 gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana under environmental stressful conditions. Book of abstracts for the International Plant Molecular Biology Congress, St. Louis, Missouri (October 25-30, 2009) (Role: Co-author)
  47. ThorntonG, Brenda., Basu, Chhandak., Guenther, Alex., Harley, Peter., Greenberg, James. 2009. Comparison of Stress-Induced, Differentially Expressed Genes to the Variance in VOC Emissions and Essential Oil Production in Pinus ponderosa and Copaifera langsdorfii. Book of Abstracts for Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists, Honolulu, Hawaii (July 18-22, 2009). (Role: Presenter)
  48. Gayle Volk, Christina Walters, Ann Caspersen, Chhandak Basu. Behavior of plant shoot tips during cryopreservation.  Gordon Research Conference. (Topic: Temperature Stress in Plants). January 21-26, 2007 (Ventura, California). (Role: Co-author)
  49. Basu, Chhandak, Volk, Gayle, BennettUG, Audrey A., BoswellUG, A. 2006. Differential gene expression occurs during processing for and recovery from cryopreservation in Arabidopsis thaliana shoot tips. Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (Boston, August 5-9, 2006). (Role: Co-author)
  50. Basu, Chhandak., Halfhill, Mathew., Burris, Jason., N., Leckie, Brian. M., Mueller, Thomas C., Halfhill, Jessica. C., and Stewart, C. Neal. Jr. 2005. Towards understanding the molecular mechanism of glyphosate resistance in horseweed (Conyza canadensis). Annual Meeting of Weed Science Society of America (Honolulu, Feb 7-10, 2004). (Role: Presenter)
  51. Basu, Chhandak., Halfhill, Mathew., and Stewart, C. Neal. Jr. 2005. Weed genomics: new tools to defeat old enemy. Abstract for the Annual Meeting of Weed Science Society of America (Honolulu, Feb 7-10, 2004). (For the ‘Weed Genomics’ symposium) (Role: Co-author)
  52. Chhandak Basu, Chris Main, Reginald J. Millwood, Tom Mueller and Neal C. Stewart Jr. The molecular basis for the evolution of glyphosate tolerance in Horseweed (Conyza canadensis). South-East Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolution Meeting (SEEPAGE). (Camp Sequoya, South Holston Lake, Virginia, September 19-21 2003) (Role: Co-author)
  53. Basu, C., Martin, J., Luo, H., Kausch, A. and Chandlee, J. 2002. Genetic Background and tissue age affect GUS reporter gene expression in different tissues of creeping bentgrass. Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (Honolulu, July 25-30, 2003). (Role: Co-author)
  54. Basu, C., Luo, H., Kausch, A. and Chandlee, J. 2002. Functional Analysis of a Reporter Gene (GUS) in Turfgrass Callus Following Microprojectile Bombardment. Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (Denver, August 3-7, 2002). (Role: Presenter)
  55. Basu, C., George D.UG, Kausch, A. and Chandlee, J. 2002. Organ and Tissue Specificity of Expression of a Reporter Gene Driven by Various Promoters in Transgenic Turfgrass. In Vitro Cell and Developmental Biology. 38 (Spring 2002). Page 78-A. (Presented in the 10th. International Congress of the International Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, Orlando, Florida, June 20-24, 2002) (This abstract was winner of the International Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Fellowship and also winner of the Student Travel Award from the Society for In Vitro Biology) (Role: Presenter)
  56. Basu, C., Luo, H., Kausch, A. and Chandlee, J. 2002. Genotypic, Tissue Specific and Developmental Variation of a Reporter gene (GUS) in Turfgrass Species following Microprojectile Bombardment. Book of Abstracts for the Regional Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists. Wellesley, Massachusetts (May 3-4, 2002) (Role: Presenter)
  57. Basu, C., Luo, H., Kausch, A. and Chandlee, J. 2002. Genetic Engineering for Trait Improvement in Turfgrass Species. Annual Meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, Massachusetts (February 14-19, 2002). AAAS List of Poster. Page 19. (Role: Presenter)
  58. Longo, C. UG, Basu, C., Pennington, S., Englander, L. and Kausch, A. 2001. Meeting the Current Educational Crisis in Biotechnology. Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (July 21-25, 2001), Providence, Rhode Island. Page 28. (Role: Co-author)
  59. Longo, ChipUG, Wang, Yuexia., Hu, Qian., Luo, Hong., Nelson, Kimberly., Basu, Chhandak., Chandlee, Joel, M. and Kausch, Albert P. Reliable Transformation of Grasses. 2001 Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (July 21-25, 2001), Providence, Rhode Island. Page 164. (Role: Co-author)
  60. Kausch, Albert., Basu Chhandak., Hodges, Thomas., Luo, Hong., Longo, John., and Chandlee, Joel. 2001. Characterization and Functional Analysis of a Bidirectional promoter from Arabidopsis. Book of Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of American Society of Plant Biologists (July 21-25, 2001), Providence, Rhode Island. Page 151.
  61. Wang, Y., Basu, C., Jiang, Z., and Sullivan, W.M. 2000. Characterization of nitrate uptake by Kentucky bluegrass at the whole plant and the organ levels. HortScience. 35 (5): 829. (Presented in Regional Meeting of American Society of Horticultural Science in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2000) (Role: Co-author)
  62. Pote, J., Basu C., Jiang, Z., and Sullivan, W.M. 2000. Relationship between nitrate leaching under turf and nitrate uptake by turfgrasses. HortScience. 35 (5): 827. (Presented in Regional Meeting of American Society of Horticultural Science in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2000) (Role: Co-author)

B. Conference Abstracts (Presented in conferences internationally)

Chhandak Basu, Niveditha Ramadoss, Dinesh Gupta, Bhiolina Bharadwaj, Kirill Musaev, Nirmal Joshee, Brajesh Vaidya. Engineering ethylene biosynthetic pathway leads to flood tolerance in plants. Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance VI. (Vienna, Austria, February 21-22, 2020)

Chhandak Basu1, Dinesh Gupta2, Tina Ip1, Destinney Cox-Georgian1, Christopher Cerda1, and Michael Summers. Metabolic engineering of terpenoids in bacteria and plants. 9th. Annual Conference of American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (Dehradun, India, February 14-16, 2019)

Michel Chaires, Niveditha Ramadoss, Dinesh Gupta, Nirmal Joshee, Kerry Cooper and Chhandak Basu. Transcriptomic analysis of abiotic stress responses in Paulownia elongata using RNA-seq. Next Gene Sequencing Meeting. Glasgow, U.K. 16-17th. May, 2017. (Role: Presenter)

Nirmal Joshee, Brajesh N Vaidya, Brent Tisserat, Chhandak Basu, and Shijie Liu. Bioenergy, supply of quality feedstock and Paulownia: A case study. 5th International Conference on Biomass Energy & Exhibition (ICBE 2016), Beijing National Convention Center Oct. 16‐19, 2016. (Role: Co-author)

T. Karl, P. Harley, L. Emmons, B. Thornton, A. Guenther, C. Basu, Andrew Turnipseed, and Kolby Jardine. Revisiting the dry depositional sink of oxidized organic vapors to vegetation. Presented in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 Vienna, Austria, May 2 – 7, 2010.

Volk, G., Henk, A., Basu, C., Gene expression in response to cryoprotectant and liquid nitrogen exposure in Arabidopsis shoot tips. Presented in 1st International Symposium on Cryopreservation in Horticultural Species. Leuven, Belgium, 5-8 April 2009.

Basu, C. 2008. Copaifera genomics: New tools for biofuel research? The International Union of Forest Research Organizations- Canadian Tree Improvement Association joint conference (August 25-28), Quebec City, Canada. (Role: Abstract was accepted but I was unable to attend this meeting)

Basu, C., Volk, G., Henk, A. 2007. Gene expression patterns in cryogenically stored Arabidopsis thaliana shoot tips. Book of Abstracts for the 5th. Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Vancouver, Canada. July 30 - August 2, 2007)

Basu, C., Chandlee, J., Kausch, A. 2002. Comparative analysis of novel promoters driving reporter gene expression in turfgrass. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Vol. 132 (Supplement). (Presented in the Annual Meeting of Society for Experimental Biology, Swansea, Wales, U.K. April 8-12, 2002)

Basu, C., Chandlee J., Sullivan W.M., Bushoven J., Wang Y. and Kausch A. 2000. Optimizing the methods and parameters for gene transfer in turfgrass for trait enhancement. Book of Abstracts for the 3rd. International Crop Science Congress (August 17-22, 2000), Hamburg, Germany. Page 240.