Like musicians in an orchestra, the members of Corey Goodman's laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, play well together. Their symphonies include occasional solos, but every player is crucial to the overall performance.
This group plays the big time. The members of Goodman's lab, using insects as model organisms to study how the central nervous system (CNS) is wired, in the past three years have produced at least six articles identified by the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information as "hot" papers--garnering an exceptionally high number of citations in a short time.
Goodman's team includes a secretary and five technicians, as well as 10 postdocs, six graduate students, and four undergraduates, who have experience in several different subspecialties of biology. Many factors have gone into the evolution and orchestration of this large and successful group, not the least of which is Goodman's conscious effort to think about interactions in the ...
