January

       17        Biology Faculty Panel; Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

                         “Undergraduate research opportunities for summer 2003”

       24        Open

       31        Open

February

         7        Dr. Dilip Shah; Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO

“Antifungal defensins and genetically engineered disease resistance in plants”

       14        Dr. Steven Carroll; Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

                         “An ecologist’s garden of verse:  Plants, pollinators, and the printed word”

       21        Dr. Shelley Tischkau; University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL

                         “Mechanisms of circadian rhythmicity: Light, clock genes and physiological targets”

       28        Dr. Charles Wood; Nebraska Center for Virology, Lincoln, NE

       “From the HIV transmission and AIDS epidemic in Africa to virology research in Nebraska”

March                  

    7-14        No Seminars – Midterm Break

       21        Dr. Thomas Crist; Miami University, Oxford, OH

                         “Does species loss or replacement determine patterns of insect biodiversity in fragmented landscapes?”

       28        Dr. Darrin Carroll; Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA

                         “Medical ecology of human disease”

  April

         4        Dr. Michael Baumann; National Institute of Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD

                         “The agony of Ecstacy: Activation and depression of Serotonin systems”

       11        A Celebration of Student Research in the Truman Biology Discipline

       18        No Seminar – Friday before Easter

       25        Dr. Karen Renzaglia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

                         “Spermatogenesis:  A fertile area for analysis of plant evolution”

   May

       1*        Biology Honors Students  (4:30-5:45 pm, Thursday – Magruder Hall, room 124)