FMI’s newest group leader Margherita Yayoi Turco (right) talked to the Communications Team about her work, mentors and more.
FMI's newest group leader Margherita Yayoi Turco ( right ) talked to the Communications Team about her work, mentors and more. Margherita Yayoi Turco is FMI's newest group leader, leading a team of researchers who will investigate how the placenta develops and works together with the mother's uterus during early pregnancy. She talks about her fascination with conservation biology, why 3D clusters of placental cells are important for understanding early pregnancy in people — and how she ended up featured in one of the world's top lifestyle magazines. Why did you become interested in science? As a kid, I was fascinated with the natural world. In elementary school, I had a really cool biology teacher who taught us about animal and plant cells, and I remember going: 'this so interesting!' At university, I studied Veterinary Biotechnology because I was interested in the reproductive technologies that would allow the conservation of animals. I did my undergraduate thesis in a small lab in Teramo, Italy, where researchers were cloning the endangered wild European mouflon using eggs from domestic sheep. That's how I got into development.
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