“The main goal of my research is to understand the various threats affecting bee pollinators and how best to counteract them,” says Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Ph.D. “I study the physiological impacts of pesticides, poor nutrition, and diseases in bees, both in the field and in the lab. For each problem that is thrown at me, my research program holistically looks at it and finds ways to solve it.”