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.[1][2] His research focuses on the evolutionary genetics of viruses, particularly bacteriophages and RNA viruses transmitted by mosquitoes.[2][3]