Saumya Pant

I am a Graduate Student at the Grant lab at Dept of Mol BioSciences Rutgers University.  I am an alumnus of the Dept of Biotechnology MS University Baroda, India (check out memories from Baroda).

Some of my interests include

• Studying Receptor mediated endocytosis(the process by which cells internalize molecules or viruses) using C. elegans as a model system.

Publications

• Zita Balklava, Saumya Pant, Hanna Fares and Barth D. Grant. Genome-wide analysis identifies a general requirement for polarity proteins in endocytic traffic. (Nature Cell Biology, 2007)
• Shi A, Saumya Pant, Balklava Z, Chen CC, Figueroa V, Grant BD: A novel requirement for C. elegans Alix/ALX-1 in RME-1-mediated membrane transport. (Curr Biol. 2007,Nov 20)
• Sato M, Sato K, Liou W, Saumya Pant, Harada A, Grant BD: Regulation of endocytic recycling by C. elegans Rab35 and its regulator RME-4, a coated-pit protein (EMBO J. 2008, Apr 23)
• Saumya Pant: An RNAi Screen For Genes Affecting Endocytic Recycling, C Elegans Development & Evolution Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison (June 2006)