In-person
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March 19, 2026 | 6:30PM – 8:00PM
Location | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto ON
Leveraging evolutionary trade-offs in the development of phage therapy
Join Professor 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.
Phage therapy offers a possible alternative to antibiotics, but a downside is the ability for target bacteria to evolve phage resistance. This talk explores how interventions can take advantage of such evolutionary ‘trade-offs’ to help clear infections.
Professor Paul Turner is the Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the director of the Center for Phage Biology & Therapy at Yale University and a microbiology faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine. He studies evolutionary genetics of viruses and researches the use of phages to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial diseases.
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.
Thursday, March 19
6:30 p.m. Lecture
7:25 p.m. Panel discussion
8:00 p.m. Reception