Paul E. Turner
Paul E. Turner | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester (BA) Michigan State University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary Biology, Virology |
| Institutions | Yale University Yale School of Medicine |
| Thesis | Bacteria and conjugative plasmids: model systems for testing evolutionary theory (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Lenski |
Paul E. Turner is an American evolutionary biologist and virologist, the Rachel Carson Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, and a faculty member in microbiology at the Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on the evolutionary genetics of viruses, particularly bacteriophages and RNA viruses transmitted by mosquitoes. In 2025, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.