Sameer Pant

Associate Professor Sameer Pant

Animal Genetics

Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Animal Genetics at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga). I graduated with a degree in Veterinary Medicine from India, and later pursued a doctoral degree in Bovine Immunogenomics at the Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) for over two years; and also worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) for another two years before moving to Australia.

Research
  • Application of targeted and high throughput genetics and genomics (quantitative and molecular) in the study of complex livestock phenotypes.
  • Candidate genes and QTLs influencing susceptibility to mastitis and Johnes disease
  • Application of next generation sequencing based approaches (e.g. RNASeq, microbiome analysis) to study complex disease phenotypes including animal models of human diseases.
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent publications

  • Yang, D., Song, Y., Gong, H., Jiang, C., Jiao, R., Ma, Y., Abbas Raza, S. H., Pant, S. D., Ma, Y., Zhang, G., Zan, L., Wang, S., Zhang, J., & Wei, D. (2026). Critical lncRNA screening and ceRNA network construction in bovine skeletal muscle cells and intramuscular adipocytes co-culture model. Gene, 974, 1-12. Article 149845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2025.149845
  • Song, Y., Zhang, J., Yang, D., Jiang, C., Raza, S. H. A., Pant, S. D., Ma, Y., Zan, L., & Wei, D. (2025). APOE mediates the coupling of myogenesis and lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle: Decoding intercellular crosstalk via a cell co-culture model. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 315(Part 1), 1-14. Article 144549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.144549 
  • Poussard, M., Pant, SD., Huang, J., Scott, P., & Ghorashi, SA. (2025). Comparative evaluation of PCR and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for detecting Pasteurella multocida in poultry. New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 73(2), 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/00480169.2024.2417921
  • Song, X., Zhang, J., Song, Y., Jiang, C., Abbas Raza, S. H., Pant, S. D., Ma, Y., Ma, Y., Zhang, G., Zan, L., & Wei, D. (2025). Corrigendum to “Lysosomal signaling in adipogenesis regulation: A novel pathway to enhance marbled beef quality” [Food Bioscience 68 (2025) 106447]. Food Bioscience, 73, 1-2. Article 107456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbio.2025.107456 
  • Jianfang, W., Raza, S. H. A., Pant, S. D., Juan, Z., Prakash, A., Abdelnour, S. A., Aloufi, B. H., Mahasneh, Z. MH., Amin, A. A., Shokrollahi, B., & Zan, L. (2025). Exploring epigenetic and genetic modulation in animal responses to thermal stress. Molecular Biotechnology, 67(3), 942-956. Article e713. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-024-01126-5