Welcome

Prospective Students and Researchers

Students and researchers interested in joining the Turner Lab as an undergraduate research assistant, graduate research assistant, postgraduate researcher, or postdoctoral researcher should contact Paul directly. The lab will also occasionally post job openings with the Student Employment Office and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.

Prospective doctoral students should apply to the PhD program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or the Microbiology Track of the PhD program in Biological & Biomedical Sciences at the School of Medicine.

News and Events

• The Center for Phage Biology & Therapy is hosting a screening of The Good Virus, a new documentary that chronicles the work of Ben Chan and his collaboration with researchers around the world, on April 12, 2025.
• Odera Nweke, B.S. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology ‘23 and Turner Lab alumni, was admitted to the University of Maryland School of Medicine to study dermatology.
• Paul sat down with the hosts of the PhageCast podcast to talk about phage therapy at Yale.
• CNN published an article about scientific efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance, highlighting the work of the Turner Lab and other phage labs around the world.
• Paul spoke for an article in ELI Magazine about the impact of the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation on phage therapy clinical trials at the Yale School of Medicine.