Arpita Basu

Assistant Professor

416 HES
Stillwater OK 74078
 
Phone: 405-744-4437
Fax: 405-744-1357
Arpita.basu@okstate.edu

Educational Background:

• Dietary bioactive compounds- Green tea and berry flavonoid supplementation in Diabetes & Cardiovascular disease

• Effects of flavonoid supplementation on inflammation & oxidative stress

• Weight loss diets

• Nutrition education

• Metabolic Syndrome

• Graduate faculty committee member

• Faculty Reader- The Honors College

• Best poster award (2008) American College of Nutrition, Arlington, Virginia: Green tea study.

• Best poster award (2006)- American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Diet and Cancer RIS, Experimental Biology, San Francisco, 2006

• Best poster award (2005)- American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Nutrient-Gene RIS, Experimental Biology, San Diego, 2005

• Best poster award (2005)- American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Vitamin and Mineral RIS, Experimental Biology, San Diego, 2005

• Chancellor’s Student Research Scholar Award- 2005, Texas Womans’ University, Denton, TX, USA

• TWU Graduate Student Scholarship, Texas Woman’s University, 2001-2004

• American Society for Nutrition

• VS Highbush Blueberry Council 2007-2008 $41,747

• Basu, A (PI)Cranberry Flavonoid consumption and biomarkers of lipid peroxidation and inflammation in subjects with Metabolic Syndrome (MeS). (Aug 2008-Oct 2009). Cranberry Institute and the Wisconsin Cranberry Board, Inc. ($35,000).

• Principles of Human Nutrition (Honors Discussion)

  NSCI  2114

• Critical Issues in Nutrition & Health Care

  NSCI  4643

• Phytochemicals in risk reduction of chronic disease

  NSCI  6033