Join the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology for the 2026 Martin Lecture. The Martin Lecture series is held annually, welcoming top thinkers and researchers in astronomy and astrophysics, ecology and evolutionary biology, physics and public policy to the University of Toronto.
This year’s invited speaker is Professor Paul Turner. Turner is the Rachel Carson professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Center for Phage Biology & Therapy at Yale University. He is also a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine.
Join Paul Turner for his talk, Leveraging evolutionary trade-offs in the development of phage therapy, which explores novel approaches to target and kill bacterial pathogens and tackles one of the most pressing issues in modern medicine: antibiotic resistance.
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Date: 19 March 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (6:30 p.m. Lecture; 7:25 p.m. Panel Discussion; 8:00 p.m. Reception).
Location: Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J5