Mentoring Philosophy We provide diverse, interactive, and stimulating learning opportunities by building a customized training plan that meets both the student’s and our laboratory needs. I meet students at least bi-weekly following laboratory meetings and for students with more involved training plans more often. The training is driven by the student’s interests and begins to be developed during the interview where I learn about the student’s interests and career goals and think about a good match to specific projects in my laboratory. The interview is also used to identifying students that maintain and build on the diversity in our group. Diversity leads to better ideas and solutions to problems we encounter and improves the training experience and knowledge base for everyone in my group.