Jeffrey D. Palmer

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Jeff Palmer
Born
Jeffrey Donald Palmer
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
AwardsMcClintock Prize (2016)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsIndiana University Bloomington
Duke University
University of Michigan
Carnegie Institution for Science
ThesisChloroplast DNA evolution : molecular and phylogenetic studies
Doctoral advisorWinslow Briggs[3]
Notable students
Websitebiology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/palmer-jeffrey.html

Jeffrey Donald Palmer is a

Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington.[2][5]

Education

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]

Career and research

Palmer's research investigates molecular evolution,[2] molecular phylogenetics[2] and comparative genomics.[2][8] As of 2018 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]

Awards and honours

Palmer was awarded membership of the

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (FAAAS) in 1999.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies". www.maizegdb.org.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c d "Evolution Tree - Jeffrey D. Palmer". academictree.org.
  4. ^
    PMID 1332054
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    JSTOR 2399846
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    JSTOR 2399279
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  7. ProQuest 303254176
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  8. ^ Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. S2CID 2593930
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    S2CID 213613
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  11. ^ "Jeffrey Palmer". Department of Biology.
  12. PMID 17030541
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  13. ProQuest 303591973
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  14. ^ "Thomas D. BRUNS". Our Environment at Berkeley.
  15. ^ "Jeffrey Palmer". www.nasonline.org.
  16. ^ "Overview: Membership". www.nasonline.org.
  17. ^ "Academy Member Connection". www.amacad.org.
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