04 Fall Grad Seminar Speaker Schedule * Room 112 Magill Hall * Date and time specified below * Faculty and students are welcome, but seating is limited * October 11th and 18th presentations will be about 40 minutes * Schedule of presentations for November and December will be available at a later date.

9/27 5:00 Brent Ashcraft – “Biological Communities of Crowley’s Ridge” 5:30 Emmanuel Opoku – “The Origin and Application of Anesthesia” 6:00 Rachel Arnold – “Phenotypic Variance within the Range of Boa constrictor” 10/4 5:00 Brian Whitehead – “Phytoremediation of Soils” 5:30 Darby Caton – “Hella-cool! The disappearance of Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) in Ozark Streams” 6:00 Christina Brands – “Rh Factor” 10/11 Summer Calahan - “Distribution of Culex p. pipiens and Culex p. quinquefasciatus in Missouri” 10/18 Chris Alley – “The affect of Ceresia lespedeza eradication on bobwhite quail Colinus virginianus populations near Clearwater Lake. 10/25 5:00 Heather Duschell – “Common Occurrences of Types of Mold in your Household” 5:30 Nathalie Pogue – “Hormone Production by the Hypothalamus and Their Effects on Emotion” 6:00 Carl Schwab – “Manatees ‘R’ Dumb – Problems with Dumb Local Ordinances” 04 Fall Grad Seminar Speaker Schedule (2nd Half) * Room 112 Magill Hall * Date and time specified below * Faculty and students are welcome, but seating is limited * Presentations will be about 40 minutes

11/1 5:00 Carl Schwab – “Manattyes R Stupedd (So Are We)” 11/8 5:00 Brian Whitehead – “Phytoremediation of Herbicide- Contaminated Surface Water with Aquatic Plants” 5:45 Darby Caton – "Den Tree Selection of Northern Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus)" 11/15 5:00 Rachel Arnold – “Physiological Effects of Feeding by Snakes, Particularly Metabolic Changes Before, During, and After Feeding” 5:45 Brent Ashcraft – "Division of labour and seasonality in the ant Leptothorax albipennis: worker corpulence and its influence on behavior" 11/22 5:00 Christina Brands – "Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) in the Face of Toxic Genes" 5:45 Emmanuel Opoku – “Effect of Weight on the strategy of foraging in ants.” 11/29 5:00 Heather Duschell – “Environmental Exposures in the Home that Trigger Asthma” 5:45 Nathalie Pogue – “The Role and Regulation of Aquaporins” 12/6 Open