Siddhartha Das

About

Dr. Siddhartha Das is a professor of Microbiology, Biology and Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (Texas, USA). His laboratory investigates the lipid metabolism and lipid signaling in parasitic protozoan, Giardia lamblia. He is on the editorial board and a permanent reviewer for various scientific journals devoted to biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology and parasitology. The work in Dr. Das’ laboratory is supported by the grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently, he is the director of Immunology and Infectious Disease Cluster of the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) at the University of Texas at El Paso, which is supported by a grant from the NIH. He teaches microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Employment

• University of Texas at El Paso Professor
  1993 - Present

Education

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Publications (26)

• Identifying Molecular Changes in Giardia lamblia Stages Using Hyperspectral Raman Microscopy
  Diagnostics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics15172161
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• Extracellular Vesicles and Lipid-Based Communications in Cancer Cells
  2025 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.0823.v1
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• Ultrastructural characterization of the putative defensive glands (warts) in the sessile, colonial rotifer Sinantherina socialis (Gnesiotrocha; Flosculariidae)
  Zoologischer Anzeiger 2023
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• Giardial lipid rafts share virulence factors with secreted vesicles and participate in parasitic infection in mice
  Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 12:974200. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.974200 2022 DOI: doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.974200
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• The bg subunit of heterotrimeric G proteins interacts with actin filaments during neuronal differentiation
  Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2021
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• Triazoxins: Novel nucleosides with anti-Giardia activity
  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127175
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• A Targeted Mass Spectrometric Analysis Reveals the Presence of a Reduced but Dynamic Sphingolipid Metabolic Pathway in an Ancient Protozoan, Giardia lamblia
  Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 2019
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• Activation of β- and α2-adrenergic receptors stimulate tubulin polymerization and promote the association of Gβγ with microtubules in cultured NIH3T3 cells
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2018
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• Arachidonic Acid Induces the Migration of MDA-MB-231 Cells by Activating Raft-associated Leukotriene B4 Receptors
  Clinical Cancer Drugs 2018
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• Glucosylceramide transferase in Giardia preferentially catalyzes the synthesis of galactosylceramide during encystation
  Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2017
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