Jeffrey D. Palmer

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 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. ^ 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.