Try and create a situation where your students are working together rather than competing for your attention, and I think that’s really important, having a sense of family within your lab or within the group of students that you’re mentoring or students in post-docs. And you can certainly arrange the lab where you recognize that there are students or post-docs who are more senior than others, and they have different sorts of responsibilities.

But make certain that they’re all working together in some meaningful way and supporting each other, and if someone’s giving a presentation somewhere, the entire lab shows up to support their sisters or brothers. And I think that’s the pride that I have in the groups that I've mentored over the years is that there is this sense of family and continuity.

And one of the nice things that turns out is that when they leave your lab, their students end up working with your current group of students, and it creates opportunities to extend horizons. And it extends the field of colleagues that you have. And so create an atmosphere where not everybody is competing for your attention, and therefore competing with each other, but rather supporting each other.

And make certain that you don’t treat folks really, truly, discriminably different, so that there’s a feeling of haves and have-nots in your lab or your unit. I think that’s as good advice as I can give.