Samarpita Basu

Samarpita Basu is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, affiliated with the Department of Biology within the College of Science. She joined the university in 2022. Her educational background includes a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Kalyani (2007), a Ph.D. from the Centre for the Environment at the Indian Institute of Technology (2016), and postdoctoral research at the University of California.

Her research focuses on understanding the responses of marine and freshwater microorganisms to environmental stressors, particularly climate change variables like rising temperatures and CO2 levels. Key interests include CO2 sequestration via microalgae such as Scenedesmus obliquus SA1 and Synechococcus, phytoplankton dynamics in marine ecosystems, and biotechnological applications of microorganisms for carbon mitigation. She also explores microbial cultivation strategies in photobioreactors and open systems, emphasizing scalability and efficiency.

Her publications from 2013 to 2022 highlight a trajectory from foundational studies on microalgal CO2 biofixation to more recent investigations into multistressor effects on marine Synechococcus. Notably, she integrates experimental and modeling approaches to study microbial behavior under varying conditions.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. While no advisees are listed, her teaching includes BIOL 112 Introductory Biology II, covering evolution, biodiversity, and organismal biology with a laboratory component.

Labs or teams associated with her work are not detailed in the texts, but her research suggests involvement in environmental microbiology and biotechnology laboratories.