In Miller's labs, which are part of the department of pharmacology and physiological sciences, playful, barbed comments are common among British postdoctoral fellows Simon Gibbons and David Bleakman and graduate student Paul Chard. "People who don't know us think we're insulting each other," explains Gibbons. "It's really just the English sense of humor." They really do get along, they say. "There's a group of people who work out together in the gym, and four of us play squash regularly," says Gibbons, "not to mention going out for beers."
"If there's one constant, it's going out for beer," agrees Chard.
Like the city of Chicago, Miller's neuroscience team is big and his laboratories expansive. With 10 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, a technician, and a secretary, the group is spread throughout a half-dozen laboratories and offices within the department. "The size of our lab is just right, so that we don't ...
