“When you have that joy, you do the right experiments. You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be.”
Our mission statement
We embrace the unknown and the thrill of discovery. We ask the big questions and come up with creative ways to answer them. All approaches and techniques are at our disposal in our hunt to find the right tool for each problem. We’re proud of our science, proud of our team, and proud to develop the next generation of curious, fun-loving, rigorous scientists.
OUR CORE VALUES
Our curiosity is insatiable.
We are fearless in the pursuit of truth.
We do the right experiment, not the easy one.
Our team is our secret (and best) weapon.
The buck stops with us.
We've got grit.
We are our toughest critic.
Thinking outside the box is our go-to.
We care deeply about making the world more just.
We're a little intense (not just about RNA)—and we like it that way.
We never take ourselves too seriously.
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, [s]he’s one who asks the right questions.
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We are committed to doing science in a lab we love, and so we care a lot about our culture and who joins our team. We have some idea on what we want our lab to look like. It's not perfect (yet), but we're getting there.
Putting ideas into practice
So what does all this mean, practically? It means that:
We have a one-conference-a-year policy.
We have a weekly lab meeting.
We have a biweekly book club, reading books like "The Structures of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn and “Fatal Invention” by Dorothy E. Roberts.