About the Golding Lab
The Golding Lab works in the area of research known as Developmental Programming and our research is focused at the interface between pregnancy and epigenetics. Our focus areas include physiology, genetics, neurology, neuroscience, toxicology, and cell, reproductive, and developmental biology.
Dr. Golding’s long-term goals are to change the narrative on the origins of alcohol-induced birth defects, define epigenetic mechanisms of paternal inheritance, and provide an entertaining yet impactful learning experience to future professionals in the biomedical sciences.
As a model, we study development defects associated with paternal alcohol exposures, how these defects influence fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), and how the cellular memory of alcohol exposures, either before conception or during gestation, influences the growth and development of the offspring.
In The News
Focus at Four: Research shows parental alcohol abuse affects aging in children (KBTX.com | Oct. 23, 2024)
Texas A&M researchers connect father’s alcohol consumption to birth defects (KBTX.com | Dec. 14, 2023)
Drinking alcohol before conceiving a child could accelerate their aging – new research in mice (TheConversation.com | Aug. 28, 2024)
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Michael C. Golding, PhD
Professor & Principal Investigator
Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology (VTPP)
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS)
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
4466 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-4466
Tel: 979.862.1332 | Email: mcgolding@tamu.edu
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