Ten simple rules for productive lab meetings

Individual responsibility rules (Rules 7, 8, and 9) outline ways each lab member can modulate their own participation to foster lab meeting productivity Productive lab meetings foster a sense of participation, integration, and inclusion among a diverse lab community, and leverage the diversity of experiences and skills of lab members The first step can be for lab members to intentionally discuss implicit biases in a lab meeting (see Rule 3);for example, lab members can facilitate an open dialogue on combating biases within and outside of lab meeting interactions The key to planning productive lab meetings boils down to discussing and determining as a team the answers to why, who, what, where, when, and how: Why are lab meetings important for the functioning of the lab? [Extracted from the article] Copyright of PLoS Computational Biology is the property of Public Library of Science and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )