Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago,[3][4][5] most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.
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[6] in 1983.
[7] The Kreitman lab does research in four main areas:[8][9][10][11] "Functional evolution of cis-regulatory sequences (Drosophila)"[12]"Molecular population genetics and evolution (Drosophila and Arabidopsis)"[12]"Canalization in development and evolution (Drosophila)"[12]"Evolutionary dynamics of disease resistance and pathogenicity (Arabidopsis)"[12]