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Coursera: The Serendipitous, Cross-Generational Story of Upcoming "What a Plant Knows" Course from Tel Aviv U
Editor’s note: This blog post is written by Professor Danny Chamovitz from Tel Aviv University. Danny is teaching a course called “What a Plant Knows”, starting soon. The back story of how Danny came to teach the course is something for the history books, as the story starts 2 decades ago with Coursera Co-Founder Daphne Koller’s father, Professor Dov Koller’s influence on Danny’s life. 23 years ago…I met Dov Koller While working towards my Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, I took an advanced graduate seminar entitled “Photobiology”, taught by Prof. Dov Koller. I knew very little about the subject, and registered for the course probably as much for its fitting my schedule, as for any other reason. Little did I know then that this 2-point seminar would have a lasting influence on my life, and even connect me to the Coursera course I am offering this fall entitled What a Plant Knows. Dov was a large man, with a ready s…