An interview with Margaret Buckingham: President of the French Society of Developmental Biology. [Interviewed by Eva Amsen].

What is your laboratory currently working on? We work on skeletal myogenesis and cardiogenesis. The skeletal myogenesis research involves studying gene regulatory networks that govern cell fate choices and the entry into the myogenic programme in the embryo, as well as satellite cell behaviour during muscle regeneration in the adult. For cardiogenesis, work involves examining the second heart field and lineages that contribute to different parts of the heart. We’re also interested in cardiac morphogenesis, and how the chambers of the heart are shaped as development proceeds.