An interview with Trudi Schüpbach.

Gertrud (Trudi) Schüpbach is Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator between 1994 and 2014, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the European Molecular Biology Organization as an Associate Member in 2000, and won the Society of Developmental Biology's Edwin G. Conklin Medal in 2006. She has a long-term interest in the genetic and molecular control of oogenesis in Drosophila, work she continues in her retirement. In this interview, conducted at the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology's 2019 meeting in Buenos Aires, she surveys her career, discusses the rich seam of science that came out of a maternal-effect screen and gives her advice for people considering a career in research.