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