{"id":4736,"date":"2016-08-15T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/directory\/scott-parnell-phd\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:07:17","slug":"scott-parnell-phd","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/directory\/scott-parnell-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Parnell, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- title_affiliation --><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor<br \/>\nUNC-Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Education and Training<\/h3>\n<p>Postdoc. University of North Carolina, 2004-2009<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Ph.D. Medical Sciences\/Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Texas A&amp;M University, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">B.A. Biology, College of Science, Texas A&amp;M University, 1998<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Areas of Interest<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>My lab studies how drugs of abuse such as alcohol and cannabinoids affect early embryonic development. Using a wide array of tools, we examine the long-term effects of early gestational drug exposure on behavior, anatomy and physiology in a mouse model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The other major focus of our group is to ascertain the pathogenic mechanisms underlying these effects resulting from early ethanol exposures as well as genes that may alter susceptibility to FASD.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.libproxy.lib.unc.edu\/pubmed\/?term=parnell+se%5BAuthor%5D\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/734\/2018\/07\/ncbi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Affiliations<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Department of Cell Biology and Physiology<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.43em\">Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor UNC-Chapel Hill Education and Training Postdoc. University of North Carolina, 2004-2009 Ph.D. Medical Sciences\/Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Texas A&amp;M University, 2004 B.A. Biology, College of Science, Texas A&amp;M University, 1998 Areas of Interest My lab studies how drugs of abuse such as alcohol and cannabinoids affect early embryonic development. Using a wide array &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/directory\/scott-parnell-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scott Parnell, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12665,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4736","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scott Parnell, PhD - Department of Cell Biology and Physiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/directory\/scott-parnell-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scott Parnell, PhD - Department of Cell Biology and Physiology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Associate Professor UNC-Chapel Hill Education and Training Postdoc. 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