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Ruth Lehmann works at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University, and is a Section Head of the Morphogenesis and Cell Biology Section of the Developmental Biology Faculty. Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, recently caught up with her.

Another thing I find intriguing with germs cells is that, when they start to migrate, we know something about the start signals but what are the stop signals?

Here, Dr Lehmann tells Kathleen more about her ‘passion’ – her multiple lines of research into germ cells within her lab. She details the aspects that fascinate her: how germs cells are made, what makes them different from other cells, how they migrate to the gonad, and the pathways required for the germ cell to either self-renew or differentiate.