Blue Genes and Boots

The Vitamin A Effect: Programming Health Before Birth - with Dr. Suzuki

Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics

In this episode, Veronika and Sam talked to Dr. Masako Suzuki. Dr. Suzuki is an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at Texas A&M University. She received her DVM at Iwate University in 1998 and her PhD at Gifu University in 2002. Her lab’s research focuses on how the prenatal environment, such as vitamin A deficiency, affects the offspring’s cells later in life.


If you want to know more about the Genetics program at Texas A&M or the research discussed in this episode, please visit the following websites:


Dr. Suzuki lab page: https://suzukilab.org/ 

Genetics IDP: https://genetics.tamu.edu 

Genetics Graduate Student Association: https://g2sa.tamu.edu