Martin Kreitman

Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago, most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.

Education
Kreitman graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Science degree Biology in 1975, and from the University of Florida with a Master of Science degree in Zoology, in 1977. He went on to study at Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Population Genetics, specifically Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster in 1983.

Research
The Kreitman lab does research in four main areas:

"'Functional evolution of cis-regulatory sequences (Drosophila)'" "'Molecular population genetics and evolution (Drosophila and Arabidopsis)'" "'Canalization in development and evolution (Drosophila)'" "'Evolutionary dynamics of disease resistance and pathogenicity (Arabidopsis)'"

Awards and honors

 * 1991 MacArthur Fellows Program
 * editor-in-chief of "Journal of Molecular Evolution" from 1999
 * Section head of the "Evolutionary/Comparative Genetics" part of Faculty of 1000 biology
 * 2010 named fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences