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

  • Maslen, B. N., Hine, B. C., Duff, C., Alexandre, P. A., Clark, S. A., van der Werf, J., White, J. D., & Pant, S. D. (2025). Faecal microbial profiles of Angus beef cattle with divergent immune responses. Livestock Science, 297, 105719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2025.105719
  • Raza, S. H. A., Pant, S. D., Zhao, G., Alkhalil, S. S., Abdulfattah, A. M., Alotibi, I., Al-Zahrani, M., Alshehri, W. A., Aloufi, B. H., Lei, H., & Zhong, R. (2024). Impact of wheat processing on growth, serum biochemistry, and ruminal microbiota in sheep (Ovis aries). Microbial Pathogenesis, 195, Article 106887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2024.106887
  • Zhang, D., Raza, S. H. A., Du, X., Wang, J., Wang, M., Ma, J., Xie, K., Pant, S. D., He, J., Aloufi, B. H., Mei, C., & Zan, L. (2024). Effect of feeding corn silage on semen quality and spermatogenesis of bulls. Veterinary Research Communications, 48, 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11259-023-10218-7
  • 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. (2024). Exploring Epigenetic and Genetic Modulation in Animal Responses to Thermal Stress. Molecular Biotechnology, 1-15. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12033-024-01126-5
  • Ma, B., Raza, S. H. A., Pant, S. D., Gao, Z., Zhang, F., Wang, Z., Hou, S., Alkhateeb, M. A., Al Abdulmonem, W., Alharbi, Y. M., Aljohani, A. S. M., & Gui, L. (2024). The impact of different levels of wheat diets on hepatic oxidative stress, immune response, and lipid metabolism in Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries). BMC Veterinary Research, 20(1), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03874-z