{"id":11497,"date":"2022-02-22T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:38:00","slug":"karl-shpargel-phd-promoted-to-associate-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/karl-shpargel-phd-promoted-to-associate-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Shpargel, PhD Promoted to Associate Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6878\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 212px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/10\/Karl-Shpargel.jpg\" alt=\"Karl Shpargel, PhD\" width=\"202\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/10\/Karl-Shpargel.jpg 1856w, 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received his B.S. in Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology from Pennsylvania State University in 1999 followed by his Ph.D. in Genetics from Case Western Reserve University in 2006.\u00a0 Dr. Shpargel served as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Trapp at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2006-2007), where he studied endotoxin-induced factors that initiate microglial neuroprotection.\u00a0 He moved to UNC Chapel Hill to join the laboratory of Dr. Terry Magnuson (Department of Genetics) as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008, where he studied histone demethylase function in cardiovascular epigenetics.\u00a0 In 2013, he was appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at UNC and has expanded his study of histone demethylase function in development and disease.\u00a0 Dr. Shpargel\u2019s lab continues to expand and he was recently awarded an R01 from NIDCR for his project titled \u201cEnhancer activation mechanisms in cranial neural crest osteoblast differentiation\u201d.\u00a0 Congratulations to Dr. Shpargel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Karl Shpargel has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective January 1, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-11497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-shpargel","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karl Shpargel, PhD Promoted to Associate Professor | Department of Genetics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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