Our Team & Lab Culture

The success of everyone in our lab is your own success. You should support and assist others in publishing high-impact papers, and they will do the same. We should ask thoughtful, probing, and even critical questions of each other’s research, but never be critical of those who are presenting it. Science does not progress in isolation. While our team is part of our lab, our team also includes all those in labs with whom we may collaborate. These collaborations give you the chance to work with colleagues in other fields and better appreciate a diversity of viewpoints; however, it is expected that our lab culture carries over to these interactions. We will foster a culture in which lab members feel comfortable approaching each other for assistance, support, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas. In our lab, collaboration is the rule, not the exception.

We as a team must remember that the goal is to further the pursuit of knowledge. Relative to all of human history, we are poised on the precipice of a unique time when we can devote our efforts to reveal newly understood or not-yet-understood biological phenomena. We should be enthusiastic about learning what we don’t know. Whereas each person in this lab may have unique or separate goals, we share the common pursuit of knowledge, which we must express through our research.