Events
- Event:
- McKnight Inter-Institute Meeting
- Date:
- April 17-18, 2008
- Venue:
- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
- Participating Institutions:
- UA Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- UAB Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida
- Evelyn F. McKnight Center for Age-Related Memory Loss, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Event:
- Perirhinal Mini-Symposium
- Date:
- May 19, 2008
- Venue:
- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Tucson, Arizona
- Program Speakers:
- Carol Barnes, Ph.D., Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona
- Timothy J. Bussey, Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
- Rebecca Burwell, Ph.D., Psychology and Neuroscience, Brown University
- Lee Ryan, Ph.D., Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona
- Ms. Sara Burke, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona
- Event:
- Neural Networks, Place Representation and Memory Conference
- Date:
- June 4-8, 2008
- Venue:
- Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
- Program:
- Hippocampal Subfields
- Invited Speaker:
- Carol A. Barnes, Ph.D.
Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Regents' Professor, Psychology and Neurology
University of Arizona
- Talk Title:
- "Hippocampal Granule Cells: An Enigma?"
- Program:
- Hippocampal Cell Assembilies
- Invited Speaker:
- Bruce L. McNaughton, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology and Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
University of Arizona
- Talk Title:
- TBA
- Event:
- 2nd International Genome Dynamics in Neuroscience Meeting
- Date:
- June 13-17, 2008
- Venue:
- Asiomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, California
- Theme:
- DNA Transactions in the Aging Brain and Associated Neurogenerative Processes
- Invited Speaker:
- Carol A. Barnes, Ph.D.
Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Regents' Professor, Psychology and Neurology
University of Arizona
- Talk Title:
- TBA
- Event:
- 6th Forum of European Neuroscientists
- Date:
- July 12-17, 2008
- Venue:
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Symposium:
- Molecular Cellular and Circuit Contributions to Cognitive Decline in Normal Aging
- Chairperson:
- Carol A. Barnes (Tucson, Arizona)
- Presentations:
- "Threshold changes in plasticity: relation to memory decline"
T.C. Foster (Gainsville, Florida)
- "Modulating the age-related increase in microglian activation attenuates the neuroinflammatory changes which are associated with deficits in LTP"
M.A Lynch (Dublin, Ireland)
- "Differential outcomes in neurocognitive aging"
M. Gallagher (Baltimore, Maryland)
- "New models of cognitive aging emerging from gene array and calcium-related physiological studies"
P.W. Landfield (Lexington, Kentucky)
