Dindot earned his Bachelor of Science in molecular and cell biology from Texas A&M University in 1999. He received a PhD in genetics from Texas A&M in 2003 in the laboratory of Dr. Jorge Piedrahita. Before joining the Texas A&M faculty in 2008 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Arthur Beaudet at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics from 2002-2008. His research focused on epigenetics and genomic imprinting. He became a joint faculty member in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine in 2011.