Utpal Pal
Utpal Pal
MPower Professor, University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State
My laboratory investigates vector biology and arthropod-borne zoonoses, with a focus on the mechanisms of pathogen transmission and persistence in tick-borne infections, particularly Lyme borreliosis transmitted by Ixodes scapularis.
Latest Papers
Assembly and Flexibility of Borrelia burgdorferi Periplasmic HtrA Hexamers
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Journal of Molecular Biology
Author(s): Anil Kumar Shakya, D. Travis Gallager, Vipin Singh Rana, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
The lp17 regulatory elements in Borrelia burgdorferi : a novel small RNA impacts gene expression and mammalian infection
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mBio
Author(s): Chrysoula Kitsou, Faith Kung, Kamoltip Promnares, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
Assembly and flexibility of B. burgdorferi periplasmic HtrA hexamers
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Journal of Molecular Biology
Author(s): Anil Kumar Shakya, D.Travis Gallager, Vipin Singh Rana, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
EPR spectroscopy reveals antioxidant manganese defenses in the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi
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mBio
Author(s): Andrés F. Londoño, Ajay Sharma, Venkatesan Kathiresan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen
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Journal of medical entomology
Author(s): Isobel Ronai, Julia C Frederick, Alec T Thompson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status ofIxodes scapularis(Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen
Author(s): Isobel Ronai, Julia C. Frederick, Alec T. Thompson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
A systemic approach to identify non-abundant immunogenic proteins in Lyme disease pathogens
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mSystems
Author(s): Ozlem Buyuktanir Yaş, Adam S. Coleman, Rachel M. Lipman, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
Characterization of spatial lipidomic signatures in tick-bitten guinea pig skin as a model for host-vector-pathogen interaction profiling
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mSystems
Author(s): Alison J. Scott, Alexis A. Smith, Ron M. A. Heeren, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
A ticking time bomb hidden in plain sight
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Science Translational Medicine
Author(s): Sukanya Narasimhan, Durland Fish, Joao H. F. Pedra, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal
Function and evolution of the aquaporin IsAQP1 in the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis
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Insect Molecular Biology
Author(s): Hitoshi Tsujimoto, Hillery C. Metz, Alexis A. Smith, et. al
UMD Author(s): Utpal Pal

