{"id":258,"date":"2021-08-03T20:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/hinton-lab\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:00:48","slug":"our-team-lab-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/hinton-lab\/teaching-philosophy\/our-team-lab-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team &amp; Lab Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>Info Text &#8211; Right Hand Column Placeholder<br \/>Refresh After Saving to Remove<\/h2>\r\n  <h3><strong>Teaching Philosophy<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li><a href=\"\/hinton-lab\/teaching-philosophy\/\">Teaching Philosophy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/hinton-lab\/teaching-philosophy\/our-relationship\/\">Our Relationship<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/hinton-lab\/teaching-philosophy\/expectations-of-me\/\">Expectations of Me<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/hinton-lab\/teaching-philosophy\/our-team-lab-culture\/\">Our Team &amp; Lab Culture<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\r\n    <figure>\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/lab-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2026\/04\/Teaching_7-1.png\" alt=\" \" \/>\r\n    <\/figure>\r\n        <p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\r\n<p>We as a team must remember that the goal is to further the pursuit of knowledge. 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