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 ^[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]}

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]

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