Jeffrey D. Palmer

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Jeff Palmer
Born
Jeffrey Donald Palmer
Alma mater Swarthmore College (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Awards McClintock Prize (2016) [1]
Scientific career
Fields
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]
Notable students
Website biology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/palmer-jeffrey.html

Jeffrey Donald Palmer is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington. [2] [5]

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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 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]

References

  1. 1 2 "The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies". www.maizegdb.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Evolution Tree - Jeffrey D. Palmer". academictree.org.
  4. 1 2 Wolfe, K. H.; Morden, C. W.; Palmer, J. D. (1992). "Function and evolution of a minimal plastid genome from a nonphotosynthetic parasitic plant". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89 (22): 10648–10652. Bibcode:1992PNAS...8910648W. doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.22.10648 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   50398 . PMID   1332054.
  5. 1 2 3 Chase, Mark W.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Olmstead, Richard G.; Morgan, David; Les, Donald H.; Mishler, Brent D.; Duvall, Melvin R.; et al. (1993). "Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL" (PDF). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . 80 (3): 528. doi:10.2307/2399846. hdl: 1969.1/179875 . ISSN   0026-6493. JSTOR   2399846.
  6. 1 2 Palmer, Jeffrey D.; Jansen, Robert K.; Michaels, Helen J.; Chase, Mark W.; Manhart, James R. (1988). "Chloroplast DNA Variation and Plant Phylogeny". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75 (4): 1180. doi:10.2307/2399279. ISSN   0026-6493. JSTOR   2399279.
  7. ↑ Palmer, Jeffrey Donald (1982). Chloroplast DNA evolution : molecular and phylogenetic studies (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC   38642864. ProQuest   303254176.
  8. ↑ Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ↑ Palmer, Jeffrey D.; Herbon, Laura A. (1988). "Plant mitochondrial DNA evolved rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence" (PDF). Journal of Molecular Evolution . 28 (1–2): 87–97. Bibcode:1988JMolE..28...87P. doi:10.1007/BF02143500. hdl: 2027.42/48042 . ISSN   0022-2844. PMID   3148746. S2CID   2593930.
  10. 1 2 Keeling, Patrick J.; Palmer, Jeffrey D. (2008). "Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution". Nature Reviews Genetics . 9 (8): 605–618. doi:10.1038/nrg2386. ISSN   1471-0056. PMID   18591983. S2CID   213613.
  11. ↑ "Jeffrey Palmer". Department of Biology.
  12. ↑ Richardson, Aaron O.; Palmer, Jeffrey D. (2007). "Horizontal Gene Transfer in Plants". Journal of Experimental Botany . 58 (1): 1–9. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erl148 . PMID   17030541.
  13. ↑ Bruns, Thomas Dickinson (1987). Molecular systematic studies of suillus and related taxa of the boletaceae using mitochondrial DNA (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. OCLC   68298947. ProQuest   303591973.(subscription required)
  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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