Learn with Tabor Academy during the second Science@Work lecture of the season.
As flu season takes hold, come out and learn something to stay healthy this winter from Tabor Academy’s upcoming Science@Work speaker: a nutritional biochemist whose research focuses on boosting the immune systems of U.S. combat soldiers. His talk is titled, “The Ubiquitous Role of Zinc in Health and Disease.”
Angus Scrimgeour, Ph.D., is a nutritional biochemist in the Military Nutrition Division at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), in Natick, Massachusetts. With over 17 years of experience developing animal models of human disease to validate nutritional countermeasures, Scrimgeour will provide insights into his nutrition research program that aims to boost the innate immune systems of U.S. combat soldiers.
Scrimgeour will discuss two very different research projects as examples of his work. The first, in Kenya where he studied the role of zinc in reducing infectious diarrhea, one of the world’s most deadly diseases; and the second in The Netherlands where he worked side-by-side with the Royal Dutch Military explosives experts. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has become the signature injury in modern warfare. To address this problem, Scrimgeour has developed nutritional interventions that increase resiliency to neurotrauma in animal models. In 2017, this work effort was expanded to use similar diets in pre-clinical models of post–traumatic stress disorder.
The lecture is free and open to the public on December 10at 6:30 pm in the Lyndon South Auditorium in the Stroud Academic Center at 242 Front Street, Marion.