Professional activity
Boards/Committees serve on:
Search committees to hire faculties and the Biology Website Committee.
Scholarly awards, including research awards:
National:
- Undergradute Research Mentor of the year 2006-2007: Awarded by the College of Natural and health Sciences, UNC
- Housing and Residential Life, UNC Academic Recognition Award (2007)
- August 2002- May 2003: University of Rhode Island Graduate Fellowship
- April 2002: Student Travel Award: Awarded by the Society for In Vitro Biology, Largo, Maryland
- December 2001: International Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology (IAPTC and B) Fellowship
- January 2000: Travel Grant Award (to attend the 3rd. International Crop Science Congress in Hamburg, Germany, August, 2000): Awarded by the Crop Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin.
- 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995: University Merit Scholarship: Awarded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Government of India.
- 1989 and 1991: National Scholarship: Awarded by Government of West Bengal, India.
International:
- November 2001:Travel Grant Award (to attend the Annual Meeting of Society for Experimental Biology in Swansea, Wales, U.K. in April, 2002): Awarded by the Society for Experimental Biology and the Company of Biologists, London, U.K.
Grants:
- Agency name: Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, Business Finance Division, State of Colorado
Program area: Bioscience Discovery and Evaluation Grant Program
Grant proposal title: Diesel tree (Copaifera langsdorfii): A novel source of biofuel?
Principal Investigator: Chhandak Basu
Funding status: Funded in the amount of $99,268 - Agency name: Sponsored Programs & Academic Research Center, University of Northern Colorado (Program area: Research Enrichment & Development Initiative program)
Grant proposal title: Cloning and Characterization of Terpene Synthase Genes from Diesel Tree
Principal Investigator: Chhandak Basu
Funding status: Funded in the amount of $15,000.00 (2007) - Agency name: Department of Education
Grant proposal title: Improving Doctoral Education in Biology at UNC
Program area: Graduate Assistance in the Areas of National Need (GAANN)
Principal Investigator: Catherine Gardiner
Co Principal Investigators:Greg DeKrey and Chhandak Basu
Funding status: Funded in the amount of $380,016 (2006) - Agency name: Sigma-Xi, North Carolina.
Program area: Sigma-Xi Grant in Aid Research
Grant Proposal title: Microarray-Based Technology to Study Pathogen-Induced Gene Expression in Turfgrass (2002)
Principal Investigator: Chhandak Basu. (293 awards were made out of 1,100 applicants who applied from 25 countries) - Dr. Noel Jackson Research Fellowship Award: Awarded by Rhode Island Turfgrass Foundation, Newport, R.I. Grant Proposal: Promoter Analysis for Genetic Enhancement of Turfgrass. Principal Investigator: Chhandak Basu (February 2002)
- Dr. Noel Jackson Research Fellowship Award: Awarded by Rhode Island Turfgrass Foundation, Newport, Rhode Island. Grant Proposal: Evaluation of an Arabidopsis bidirectional promoter in Turfgrass. Principal Investigator: Chhandak Basu (March 2001)