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Dr. Arpita Basu

2015

Dr. Arpita Basu

Dr. Arpita Basu

Education: PhD, Nutrition & Food Sciences, Texas Woman’s University (2005); Postdoctoral training, UC Davis Medical Center; Registered Dietitian (RD);faculty appointment in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State University (OSU) since 2006. Currently, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, OSU

Awards received: Marguerite Scruggs Award for meritorious early career research in Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State University (2009); Best Poster Award (2008 & 2013) American College of Nutrition (ACN) annual conference; Best Poster Award (2005 & 2006) American Society for Nutrition (ASN) annual conference; 58 peer-reviewed original research publications and abstracts.

My teaching and research interests focus on the role of functional foods and phytochemical-based nutraceuticals in reducing risks and complications of diabetes and related cardiovascular conditions. My research group conducts controlled human intervention studies on food and beverages of medicinal health effects such as, green tea, berries, and pomegranate extracts in participants with the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. We are specifically interested in examining effects on traditional and emerging biomarkers in the clinical progression of diabetes and CVD as modulated by functional foods and phytochemicals.

Abstracts

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Britt Burton Freeman NCFST, IIT, UCD

“Health Promoting Foods:The Strawberry”
Iris Erlund National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

“Berry Consumption in Humans: Bioavailability of Polyphenols and Effects on Cardiovascular Risk Factors”
Roger Corder William Harvey Research Institute of London

“Cardiovascular Actions of Procyanidin-rich Foods and Beverages”
Francisco Tomas-Barberan University of Murica, Spain

“Exploring the Biological Activity of Berry Ellagitannin Metabolites”
Alan Crozier University of Glasgow, Scotland

“Healthy Eating: Bioavailability of Dietary Flavonoids and Phenolics”
Paul Milbury Tufts University

“Xenobiotic Metabolism and Berry Flavonoid Transport Across the Blood Brain Barrier”
Ron Prior USDA-ARS at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, U of Arkansas

“Anthocyanins and Other Factors in Berries that Affect Development of Obesity”
Tatiana Oberyszyn Ohio State University

“Topical Black Raspberry Extract and Skin Cancer”
Xiao-Ming Yin University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

“Anthocyanidins and Cancer Therapy, Different Routes to the Demise”
Gary Stoner Ohio State University

“Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers in Humans with Berries”
Peter Ferguson University of Western Ontario

“Cranberry Phytochemicals as Potential Anticancer Agents”
Martha Clare Morris Rush Institute for Healthy Aging

“Epidemiological Evidence of Antioxidant Nutrients and Brain Health”

Thomas B. Kuhn Universtiy of Fairbanks, Alaska

“Alaska Wild Blueberries and Neuroinflammatory Signaling:
Disrupting NADPH oxidase Assembly in Lipid Rafts”

Barbara Shukitt-Hale USDA-ARS at Tufts University

“Behavioral Effects of Berries in Aging and Aging Radiation Models”
Dr. Jim Joseph USDA-ARS at Tufts University

Quenching the “Fires” of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress: “Food Parings for Healthy Brain Aging”

Robert Krikorian Universtiy of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

“Interventions in Cognitive Aging”
Jess Reed University of Wisconsin

“Berry Tannins and Gut Health”
Luke Howard University of Arkansas

“Effect of Jam Processing and Storage on Polyphenolics and Antioxidant Capacity of Blueberries”
Venket Rao University of Toronto

”Raspberries and Human Health:Time for Recognition”
Amy Howell Rutgers University

“Bacterial Anti-adhesion Activity of Cranberry Proanthocyanidins “
Wilhemina Kalt Agriculture and AgriFoods Canada

“Recent Research on Blueberries and Vision”
Mary Ann Lila North Carolina Research Campus at Kanapolis

“Berry Resources and Human Health Under the Cloud of Climate Change”