Plant biologist Charles Arntzen will give two talks this month about his pioneering work on genetically modifying produce to create inexpensive "edible vaccines."

Arntzen, the featured speaker for this year's Storer Life Sciences Lectureship, holds an endowed chair at Arizona State University and is president/CEO emeritus of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with Cornell University. He will lecture on Jan. 30 on the topic of "Production and Use of Oral Vaccines in Transgenic Plants; from Basic Science to Human Clinical Trials.

And on Jan. 31 he will speak about "Bioprospecting for Nutraceuticals and Pharmaceuticals; Functional Genomics Applications to Plant Metabolism." Both talks begin at 4:10 p.m. in 180 Medical Science Building 1C in the Medical Science Complex.