Sun, November 15, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ohio Union U.S. Bank Conference Theater
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Event Host: College of Arts and Sciences
Short Description: Stefano Mancuso, professor, University of Florence; director and founder of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology; founder of International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, lectures on “Brilliant green – from plant intelligence to a new model of modernity.”
Event Host: College of Arts and Sciences
Short Description: Stefano Mancuso, professor, University of Florence; director and founder of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology; founder of International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, lectures on “Brilliant green – from plant intelligence to a new model of modernity.”
Reception following the lecture in the Ohio Union Ohio Staters Traditions Room (4-5 p.m.)
Stefano Mancuso, professor, University of Florence; director and founder of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology; founder of International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, lectures on “Brilliant green – from plant intelligence to a new model of modernity.”
Despite huge differences in form, all animals are similar to us—variations on a theme. A plant is ‘something else,’ viewed as commodity or decoration. Mancuso shows plants are exquisitely complex organisms that communicate, solve problems, memorize, learn: with intelligence, but not as we know it.