FIRST Fellow
Emory School of Medicine
Department of Cell Biology
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Education
- FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2024 - Present
- Ph.D., Toxicology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY - 2022
- M.S., Toxicology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY - 2020
- B.S., Environmental Science, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY - 2018
Research
- Characterizing the role of toxicants (pyrethroids) in the onset and progression of Parkinson’s Disease
- Regulation of pyrethroid metabolism by the gut microbiome
- The interaction between the gut microbiome and alpha-synuclein in the gut: A driver for Parkinson’s Disease onset and progression
Research Mentor: Timothy Sampson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Emory School of Medicine
Teaching
Teaching Mentor: Lawrence Blumer, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Morehouse College
Publications
- Coe, G.L., Krout, I.N., Munro-Ehrlich, M. et al. Assessing the role of the gut microbiome in methylmercury demethylation and elimination in humans and gnotobiotic mice. Arch Toxicol 97, 2399–2418 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-023-03548-7
- Ian N Krout, Thomas Scrimale, Matthew D Rand, Targeted Intracellular Demethylation of Methylmercury Enhances Elimination Kinetics and Reduces Developmental Toxicity in Transgenic Drosophila, Toxicological Sciences, 2022;, kfac105, https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfac105.
- Krout, I. N., Scrimale, T., Vorojekina, D., Boyd, E. S., & Rand, M. D. (2022). Organomercurial lyase (MerB)-mediated demethylation decreases bacterial methylmercury resistance in the absence of mercuric reductase (MerA). Applied Environmental Microbiology. 0(ja), aem.00010-00022. doi:doi:10.1128/aem.00010-22