Recent Publications:

Brill, J., G. R. Hime, M. Scharer-Schuksz, and M.T. Fuller (2000) A phospholipid kinase regulates actin organization and intercellular bridge formation during germ line cytokinesis. Development 127: 3855-3864.

Kiger, A., H. White-Cooper, and M.T. Fuller (2000) Somatic support cells restrict germ line stem cell self-renewal and promote differentiation. Nature 407: 750-754.

White-Cooper, H., D. Leroy, A. MacQueen, and M.T. Fuller (2000) Transcription of meiotic cell cycle and terminal differentiation genes depends on a conserved chromatin associated protein, whose nuclear localization is regulated. Development 127: 5463-5473.

Hiller, M., T.-Y. Lin, C. Wood, and M.T. Fuller (2001) Developmental control of transcription by a tissue specific TAF homolog. Genes and Development 15: 1021-1030.

Santel, A. and M.T. Fuller (2001) Control of mitochondrial morphology by a human Mitofusin protein. J. Cell Sci. 114: 867-874.

Kiger, A. and M.T. Fuller (2001) Male Germ Line Stem Cells. In Stem Cell Biology, (D. Gottlieb, R. Gardner, and D. Marshak, eds.) Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. pp.149-187.

Schulz, C., C. Wood, D. L. Jones, S. Tazuke, and M.T. Fuller: Signaling from germ cells mediated by the rhomboid homolog stet organizes encapsulation by somatic support cells. submitted.

Kiger, A.A., D.L. Jones, C. Schulz, M. Rogers, and M.T. Fuller: Signals from a support cell niche specify stem cell self-renewal via JAK-STAT pathway activation. Science, in press.