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Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
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Team of multidisciplinary researchers at UT Austin with focuses on mechanisms of drug action, neuroadaptation to repeated substance use, risk factors, outcomes, and treatment. https://waggonercenter.utexas.edu/
🍕Science & slices! Join us for the last Mindful Sips of the semester today at 5pm in NHB 1.720:
🧠 Anna Warden (Mayfield Lab), “Genetic risk factors for developing AUD and what they really mean”
📊 John Leri (Cisler Lab), “Predictors of alcohol misuse/AUD”
Don’t miss it!
April 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congrats to Dr. Marion Friske from the Mayfield lab for being selected as a finalist in Empower Your Pitch! 🧠🎤 This UT-wide competition challenges grad students and postdocs to tell the story of their research and its impact in 3 minutes or less. The finale takes place 5-7 pm on 4/9 in FAC.
April 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Grateful to have hosted Dr. Rajita Sinha at our Waggoner Advance retreat on Monday. It's inspiring to see our affiliates come together to discuss their research in alcohol & substance use disorders. Huge thanks to our speakers, poster presenters, & attendees! #Alcohol #Substance #Research #UTAustin
April 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
Heavy alcohol use can speed up biological aging. ⏳ Epigenetic clocks show that those with an alcohol use disorder may age faster at the cellular level, with GrimAge V2 linking alcohol use to key aging markers. #Epigenetics #Alcohol #ACER

Read more: doi.org/10.1111/acer...
Alcohol and aging: Next‐generation epigenetic clocks predict biological age acceleration in individuals with alcohol use disorder
Our study investigated the performance of five epigenetic clocks by evaluating associations with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and various alcohol-related phenotypes. Both DNAm GrimAge versions were ass...
doi.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
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February 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM