Martin Kreitman
| Professor Martin Kreitman | |
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| Born | Martin Edward Kreitman |
| Institutions |
University of Chicago Harvard University Stony Brook University University of Florida |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (PhD) University of Florida Stony Brook University (undergraduate) |
| Thesis | Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Lewontin |
| Doctoral students | Hiroshi Akashi Eli Stahl Peter Andolfatto Casey Bergman Andrew Crawford Bin He Mark Allen Jensen Fengli Liu Susan Lott Stephanie Rollmann |
| Known for | McDonald–Kreitman test |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellows Program (1991) |
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Professor 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.
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.
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)"
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