Jeffrey D. Palmer

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][8]

Career and research

Palmer's research investigates molecular evolution,[2] molecular phylogenetics[2] and comparative genomics.[2][9] As of 2018 his laboratory studies the evolution of genes and genomes particularly in the chloroplast, mitochondrial DNA[10] and during horizontal gene transfer.[11][12][13]

His former doctoral students include Thomas D. Bruns,[4] a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[14] His former postdocs include Patrick J. Keeling,[3][11] and Kenneth H. Wolfe,[5] and Mark Wayne Chase.[6][7]

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. "The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies". www.maizegdb.org.
  2. Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. "Evolution Tree - Jeffrey D. Palmer". academictree.org.
  4. 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)
  5. 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.
  6. 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. ISSN 0026-6493. JSTOR 2399846.
  7. 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.
  8. Palmer, Jeffrey Donald (1982). Chloroplast DNA evolution : molecular and phylogenetic studies (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 38642864. ProQuest 303254176.
  9. Jeffrey D. Palmer publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. "Jeffrey Palmer". Department of Biology.
  13. 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.
  14. "Thomas D. BRUNS". Our Environment at Berkeley.
  15. http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "Jeffrey Palmer". www.nasonline.org.
  16. http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "Overview: Membership". www.nasonline.org.
  17. "Academy Member Connection". www.amacad.org.
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