Margaret T. Fuller

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Margaret T. Fuller
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMinx
Education Brandeis University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for Stem cells, spermatogenesis
Spouse Matthew P. Scott
Scientific career
Fields Developmental biology
Institutions Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Jonathan King

Margaret "Minx" T. Fuller is an American developmental biologist known for her research on the male germ line and defining the role of the stem cell environment (the hub cells that establish the niche of particular cells) in specifying cell fate and differentiation. [1] [2]

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Fuller is the Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University, and former chair of the Stanford Department of Developmental Biology.

Biography

Fuller earned a B.A. in physics from Brandeis University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in microbiology from MIT in 1980, working with Jonathan King. She completed her postdoctoral work in developmental genetics at Indiana University, working with Elizabeth Raff and Thomas Kaufman, from 1980 to 1983. [3] Fuller joined the University of Colorado faculty and then joined Stanford University in 1990, [4] where she began working on spermatogenesis, doing genetic analysis of microtubule structure and function. [1]

Fuller is married to fellow biologist Matthew P. Scott. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Speaker Profiles: Margaret T. Fuller". CDB Symposium 2007.
  2. "Profile: Margaret T. Fuller (1985)". Searle Scholars. Archived from the original on September 5, 2004.
  3. "Community Academic Profiles - Faculty & Researchers". Stanford Medicine.
  4. 1 2 "Fuller, Hanley named to endowed professorships". Stanford University. February 23, 2005. Archived from the original on June 21, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
  5. Chen, Ingfei (August 2006). "A Wild-Angle View" (PDF). HHMI Bulletin. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2009.
  6. "Five scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences". Stanford University (Press release). May 1, 2008. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  7. "Drosophila researcher Margaret Fuller wins Genetics Society of America Medal". drosophilaresearch.org. Retrieved November 3, 2023.