Indeed, and this is encouraged as it keeps us sharp and engaged. To achieve our mission, we acquire knowledge to understand the purpose of the experiments, master the techniques, instrumentation, and related applications, and to anticipate and understand the results of the experiments.  This knowledge might be gained through published or unpublished documents, manuals, book chapters, in person training or workshops, lectures, and on-line resources.  Our role plays to our strengths, and there is every opportunity to learn, and to find exciting new skills.  Laboratory Meetings are held weekly, and are one of the forums for discussing new findings, study progress, ideas, difficulties, and to troubleshoot as a group. Importantly, these meetings provide the opportunity to further grasp the relevance and/or impact of your work, and to learn of what other relevant areas of study have reported, or are involved in. This is achieved, in part, through mini-journal clubs in which lab members summarize salient topics from a preselected set of high impact peer-reviewed Journals. Occasionally, guests from other disciplines and/or Departments, are invited to present to our group. Laboratory Meetings provide a safe environment to ask questions and receive feedback, to think differently, to hold intellectual discussions while addressing different clinical and research aspects.  In addition, working with us provides the opportunity to learn about other exciting projects whether current or under development through attendance to our biweekly Epidemiology Service Meetings, and our bimonthly Population Science Research Program lectures. In addition, MSK holds Center-wide Lectures. You will be able to hear from national and international experts from a wide range of disciplines, including epidemiology, medicine, genetics, biostatistics, health outcomes, survivorship, behavioral sciences, and others.