McKnight Brain Research Institute
1st Inter-Institutional Meeting
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
April 17-18, 2008
McKnight Brain Research Foundation Trustees (left to right): Theresa Borcheck, Hank Raattama, Jr., J.D., J. Lee Dockery, M.D., John G. Clarkson, M.D., Nina Ellenbogan Raim, M.D., J.D., Michael L. Dockery, M.D.
University of Arizona administrators welcomed the participants (left to right): Dr. Michael Cusanovich, Director, Arizona Research Labs; Dr. Leslie Tolbert, Vice President for Research; Dr. Edward Donnerstein, Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The 1st McKnight Inter-Institutional Meeting was well attend by approximately 115 faculty, postdocs, graduate students and research staff from the four institutions (University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Arizona, University of Florida and University of Miami.
Spokespersons from each Institution presented an overview of the research approaches being taken to the question of how memory changes with age.
Left: Carol A. Barnes, Ph.D., Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging, University of Arizona
Center: Thomas C. Foster, Ph.D., McKnight Chair for Research on Aging and Memory, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
Right: Dennis A. Steindler, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
Above-left: Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., Professor and Chair of Neurology, Evelyn F. McKnight Center for Age-Related Memory Loss, University of Miami
Above-right: Clinton B. Wright, M.D., Scientific Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Center for Age-Related Memory Loss, University of Miami
Above-far-right: J. David Sweatt, Ph.D., Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
A highlight of the day was a tour of the new Evelyn F. McKnight Memory and Cognitive Assessment Clinic in the Psychology Building on the University of Arizona campus. (left to right - seated): Nina Ellenbogan Raim, M.D., J.D.; Carol Barnes, Ph.D.; Betty Glisky, Ph.D. (left to right - standing): Theresa Borcheck; Lee Ryan, Ph.D.; J. Lee Dockery, M.D.; Michael L. Dockery, M.D.; John G. Clarkson, M.D.; Hank Raattama, Jr., J.D., Gene Alexander, Ph.D
Photos © 2008, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Research Institute