{{short description|American developmental biologist}} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | image = | image_size = 150px | other_names = Minx | name = Margaret T. Fuller | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | ethnicity = | field = [[Developmental biology]] | work_institutions = [[Stanford University]] | doctoral_advisor = Jonathan King | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Stem cell]]s, [[spermatogenesis]] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | religion = | caption = | signature = | spouse = [[Matthew P. Scott]] | education = [[Brandeis University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[PhD]]) }}

'''Margaret "Minx" Tatnall Fuller''' is an American [[developmental biology|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 [[cellular differentiation|differentiation]].<ref name="CDB-Symposium-2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdb.riken.jp/jp/03_activities/symposia/2007/speaker/profile_02.html|title=Speaker Profiles: Margaret T. Fuller|website=CDB Symposium 2007}}</ref><ref name="Searle-profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.searlescholars.net/people/advisory_board/fuller.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040905120923/http://www.searlescholars.net/people/advisory_board/fuller.html|archivedate=2004-09-05|website=Searle Scholars|title=Profile: Margaret T. Fuller (1985)}}</ref> 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 [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in physics from [[Brandeis University]] in 1974, and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in microbiology from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|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.<ref name="Stanford-profile">{{Cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/faculty/Margaret_Fuller|title=Community Academic Profiles - Faculty & Researchers|website=Stanford Medicine}}</ref> Fuller joined the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado]] faculty and then joined [[Stanford University]] in 1990,<ref name="Stanford-2005">{{cite web|website=Stanford University|url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/february23/med-endowed-022305.html|title=Fuller, Hanley named to endowed professorships|date=February 23, 2005|access-date=November 23, 2007|archive-date=June 21, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621182227/http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/february23/med-endowed-022305.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> where she began working on [[spermatogenesis]], doing genetic analysis of [[microtubule]] structure and function.<ref name="CDB-Symposium-2007"/>

Fuller is married to fellow biologist [[Matthew P. Scott]].<ref name="HHMIBulletin-2006">{{cite web |url = http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/august2006/pdf/WildAngle.pdf |last = Chen |first = Ingfei |date = August 2006 |title = A Wild-Angle View |work = [[HHMI]] Bulletin |accessdate = 2009-04-10 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110608083507/http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/august2006/pdf/WildAngle.pdf |archivedate = 2011-06-08 }}</ref>

==Key papers== * Raff, E.C. and M. T. Fuller, et al., "Regulation of tubulin gene expression during embryogenesis in ''Drosophila melanogaster''", ''Cell'' v.28, pp.&nbsp;33–40 (1982). * Fuller, M.T. ''et al.'', "Genetic Analysis of Microtubule Structure: A b-tubulin Mutation Causes the Formation of Aberrant Microtubule ''in vivo'' and ''in vitro''", ''Journal of Cell Biology'', v.104, pp.&nbsp;385–394 (1987). * Fuller, M.T. and P.G. Wilson, "Force and Counter Force in the Mitotic Spindle", ''Cell'', v.71, pp.&nbsp;547–550 (1992). * Fuller, M.T., "Riding the Polar Winds: Chromosomes Motor Down East," ''Cell'', v.81, pp.&nbsp;5–8 (1995). * Hales, K.G., M.T. Fuller, "Developmentally Regulated Mitochondrial Fusion Mediated by a Conserved, Novel, Predicted GTPase", ''Cell'' (1997). * G. J. Hermann, J.W. Thatcher, J.P. Mills, K.G. Hales, M.T. Fuller, "Mitochondrial Fusion in Yeast Requires the Transmembrane GTPase Fzo1p", ''Journal of Cell Biology'' (1998). * [[Amy Kiger|Kiger, A.]], H. White-Cooper, and M.T. fuller, "Somatic support cells restrict germ line stem cell self-renewal and promote differentiation", ''Nature'' v.407, pp.&nbsp;750–754 (2000).

===Additional publications=== * Margaret T. Fuller and [[Allan C. Spradling]], ''Review'', "Male and Female ''Drosophila'' Germline Stem Cells: Two Versions of Immortality", ''Science'', v.316, n.5823, pp.&nbsp;402–404 (April 20, 2007).

==Awards== * 1980 - [[Jane Coffin Childs Fellow]] * 1985-86 - [[Searle Scholar]] * 2004 - Reed-Hodgson Professor, Human Biology, [[Stanford University]]<ref name="Stanford-2005"/> * 2006 - Elected member, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] * 2008 - Elected member, [[National Academy of Sciences]]<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-nas-050708.html|title=Five scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences|website=Stanford University|date=May 1, 2008|access-date=July 27, 2018|archive-date=October 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015190344/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-nas-050708.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2022 - Genetics Society of America Medal<ref>{{Cite web |title=Drosophila researcher Margaret Fuller wins Genetics Society of America Medal |url=https://drosophilaresearch.org/news/drosophila-researcher-margaret-fuller-wins-genetics-society-america-medal |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=drosophilaresearch.org |language=en}}</ref>

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