Jeff Palmer | |
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Born | Jeffrey Donald Palmer |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) Stanford University (PhD) |
Awards | McClintock Prize (2016)[1] |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | Indiana University Bloomington Duke University University of Michigan Carnegie Institution for Science |
Thesis | Chloroplast DNA evolution : molecular and phylogenetic studies |
Doctoral advisor | Winslow Briggs[3] |
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Website | biology |
Jeffrey Donald Palmer is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington.[2][5]
Palmer was educated at Swarthmore College and completed his PhD at Stanford University on the evolution of chloroplast DNA supervised by Winslow Briggs in 1982.[3][7]
Palmer's research investigates molecular evolution,[2] molecular phylogenetics[2] and comparative genomics.[2][8] As of 2018[update] his laboratory studies the evolution of genes and genomes particularly in the chloroplast, mitochondrial DNA[9] and during horizontal gene transfer.[10][11][12]
His former doctoral students include Thomas D. Bruns,[13] a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[14] His former postdocs include Patrick J. Keeling,[3][10] and Kenneth H. Wolfe,[4] and Mark Wayne Chase.[5][6]
Palmer was awarded membership of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000[15] in recognition of his “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”[16] and the McClintock Prize in 2016 for his studies of plant genome structure, function and evolution.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (FAAAS) in 1999.[17]