September

21

Dr. Alan D. Christian, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Arkansas State University.

The Role And Relative Contribution Of Freshwater Mussels In Nutrient Recycling.

HOST: Dr. Jon Gering

28

Dr. Stan Shaffer Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC Medical School; Neonatologist, St. Luke’s Hospital, KC, MO

Health Care in Haiti: Missouri Connections.

HOST: Dr. Lin Twining

SPECIAL SEMINAR LOCATION: VIOLETTE HALL 1000

  October

5

Dr. Karl Hasenstein, Professor of Biology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette.  Gravitropism in Plants

HOST: Dr. John Ma

12

Greg Pitchford, Fisheries Management Biologist, Missouri Department of Conservation, Chillicothe, MO

Locust Creek: Current Issues and Emerging Challenges in a Meandering Wetland Stream of Northern Missouri.

HOST: Dr. Cynthia Cooper

19

NO SEMINAR - Midterm Break

26

BIOLOGY ALUMNI SPEAKER:

Kris Karsten, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University.  Ecology and Conservation of Chameleons of Madagascar

HOST: Dr. Chad Montgomery

   November

2

Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Biology Department, University of New Mexico.  Diversity and Structure of Soil and Endophytic Fungal Communities in a Semiarid Grassland

HOST: Dr. Jose Herrera

9

TIM VOGT, Park Scientist, Division of State Parks, Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly in Missouri – Protection of a Federally Endangered Species

HOST: Dr. George Shinn

16

Dr. R. Scott Hawley, Investigator, Stowers Institute of Medical Research; Professor of Molecular Biosciences & Physiology, University of Kansas.  The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis

HOST: Dr. Timothy Walston