Smiti Gupta

Department

Nutrition and Food Science

Phone

313-577-3344

Fax

313-577-8616

Office

3027 Science Hall

Biography

I have had the privilege to make progressive contributions both in teaching and research, specifically in the area of nutrition, disease and metabolomics. In spite of the challenging economic environment, I have created a successful and sustainable research program, with substantial external funding, a respectable publication record and numerous presentations at local, national and international settings. This has been accomplished along with course and curriculum development,and considerable service at the departmental, university and community levels.

By educating, close mentoring, instilling enthusiasm and encouraging a team spirit, my team and I have enjoyed an active, diverse, fun and productive laboratory environment. I have successfully trained and graduated nine Ph.D., 20 M.S. students, together with mentoring a host of undergraduate (> 40) students who worked in my laboratory on directed research projects, honors thesis or to gain research experience.

In addition, we have been able to serve the community by hosting, training and perhaps inspiring (!) high school students over the summer semesters from various communities in Metro Detroit.

Selected publications

• Mengying Liu, Nirmalya Saha, Amikai Gajan, Nadia Saadat, Smiti V. Gupta and Lori Pile. Complex interplay between SAM synthetase and the transcriptional cofactor SIN3 to control metabolism and transcription. (2020.) J. Biologial Chemistry. IF: 4.11
• Rajasinghe L., Hutching, M and Gupta SV (2019). Delta-tocotrienol modulates glutamine dependence by inhibiting ASCT2 and LAT1 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells: Metabolomics Approach. Metabolites
• Mar 13;9(3). pii: E50. doi: 10.3390/metabo9030050. IF: 3.3
• Raja V, Salsaa M, Joshi A, Li Y, van Roermund C, Saadat N, Schmidtke M , Hüttemann M, Gupta SV, Wanders R, and Greenberg ML (2019)
• Cardiolipin-deficient cells depend on anaplerotic pathways to ameliorate defective TCA cycle function. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta Lipids. Aug;1864(8):1183. IF:4.4
• Rajasinghe L., and Gupta SV (2018). Delta-tocotrienol inhibits non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells invasion of cells via inhibition of NF-κB, uPA activator and MMP-9. OncoTargets and Therapy. In press
• Saadat, N., Akhtar, S., Razalli, NH., Goja, A., Geamanu, A., David, D. and Gupta, SV. (2018). Dietary Garcinol Arrests Pancreatic Cancer in p53 and k-ras conditional mutant mouse model. Nutrition and cancer
• Oct 1:1-13. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2018.150232
• Saadat,N., Liu, F; Haynes, B; Nangia-Makker, P Bao, X, Li, X., Polin, L., Gupta, SV., Mao, G., Shekhar, M. (2018) Targeting Triple Negative Breast Cancers with Gold Nanoparticle-Conjugated Rad6 Inhibitor: Metabolic Perturbation, Biodistribution, Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutic Activity. Journal of Controlled Release. 2018 Dec;17(12):2586-2597. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-18-0364. Epub 2018 Sep 21.
• PMID: 30242094
• Rajasinghe L., and Gupta SV (2017). Tocotrienols rich mixture inhibits cell proliferation and induces apoptosis via down-regulation of the Notch-1/NF-κB pathways in non-small cell lung cancer cells (NSCLC). J. Nutrition and Dietary Supplements. 2018 Jul 24;11:4301-4314. doi: 10.2147/OTT.S160163. eCollection 2018
• Geamanu A., Bauerfeld, C., Gupta, SV, and Samavati L, (2016) Metabolomics Connect Aberrant Bioenergetic Gut microbiota and Inflammation in Sarcoidosis Patients. Metabolomics. 12(2),35 1-13 DOI 10.1007/s11306-015-0932-2
• Ji X, Usman A, Razalli NH, Sambanthamurthi R, Gupta, SV (2015). Oil palm phenolics (OPP) inhibit pancreatic cancer cell proliferation via suppression of NF-κB pathway. Anticancer Res. Jan;35(1):97-106
• Geamanu, A., Saadat, N., Goja, A., Khosla, P and Gupta, S.V. (2013) ProAlgaZyme subfraction improves the lipoprotein profile of hypercholerteolemic hamsters, while inhibiting production of betaine, carnitine and choline metabolites. J. Nutrition & Metabolism. 10:55. 
• Parasramka, M., Ali, S., Banerjee, S., Deryavoush, T., Sarkar, F., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Garcinol sensitizes human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells to gemcitabine by modulating microRNA signatures. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. 57: 235-248 IF: 4.31
• Ji,X., Wang, Z., Sarkar, F.H., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Delta-tocotrienol augments cisplatin induced suppression of non-small cell lung cancer cells via inhibition of the Notch-1 pathway. Anticancer Research, 32(7) 2639-2645. IF:1.75
• Geamanu, A., Saadat, N., Goja, A., Wadehra, M., Ji, X., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) ProAlgaZyme and its sub-fractions increase plasma HDL-cholesterol via up regulation of ApoA1, ABCA1 and SRB1 and inhibition of CETP in hypercholesterolemic hamsters. J. Nutrition and Dietary supplements. 4: 17-24. Open access: Total views: 2017 as of 11/8/2012; Total PDF downloads: 441
• Parasramka, M., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Synergistic effect of garcinol and curcumin on antiproliferative and apoptotic activity in pancreatic cancer cells. J. Oncology. Volume 2012, Article ID 709739, doi:10.1155/2012/709739 
• Saadat, N. and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Potential Role of Garcinol as an Anticancer Agent. J. Oncology. Volume 2012, Article ID 647206, doi:10.1155/2012/647206IF
• Ji,X., Wang, Z., Geamanu, A., Goja, A., Sarkar,, F.H., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Delta-tocotrienol Suppresses Notch-1 Pathway by Up-regulating miR-34a in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Cells. International J. Cancer. 131 (11)2668-677
• Saadat, N., Iglayreger, H., Myers,M., Bodary,P., and Gupta, S.V. (2012) Differences in metabolomic profiles of male db/db and s/s, leptin receptor mutant mice. Physiological Genomics. 44(6):374-81
• Ji, X., Wang, Z., Geamanu, A., Sarkar, F.H., Gupta, S.V. (2011) Inhibition of cell growth and induction of apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer cells by delta-tocotrienol is associated with Notch-1 down-regulation. J. Cell. Biochemistry. 112(10): 2773-83
• Parasramka, M., and Gupta, S.V. (2011) Garcinol Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Promotes Apoptosis in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Cells. J. Nutrition and Cancer. 63(3):456-65

Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught

Licensed to teach the SIMCA multivariate analsys software program. This is used to perform data analysis exercises in the metabolomics class (NFS 7000).

Research Description

Affiliated Departments

• Nutrition & Food Science