The Life of Plants

Next week, the Franklin College hosts Indiana University Chancellor's Professor Roger Hangartner for two lectures in two different parts of campus that bring some focus to a little-regarded subject: the secret life of plants:

Lamar Dodd School of Art will present a lecture by molecular, cellular and developmental biologist Roger Hangarter of Indiana University on March 6 at 5:30 p.m. in room S150 of the art school. His talk on "Plants: They whisper, talk and move" is free and open to the public.

On March 5, Hangarter will give lecture titled "Light regulation of actin-dependent chloroplast movements in leaf cells" at 4 p.m. in room 2401 of the Miller Plant Sciences Building.

Or not-so-secret life. Hangartner was part of the collaborative national exhibition sLowlife, which used a series of time-lapse film and video to illustrate, if you will, the processes and dynamics of plant life. The website is great, and both talks promise to be intriguing to people inside and out of both art and plant biology. Doesn't that describe most of us?