No. Surname lab is totally fine. Besides, not everybody is so privileged that others will remember their surname (which is really important for finding and citing your work anyway) if not included in lab name IMHO.https://twitter.com/emekdemir/status/1025067678023671808 …
Anyway, I'm glad your lab naming experience worked out and were welcomed into a great lab to co-run. I'm gonna guess that's quite a rare experience though.
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Side note: Can you imagine if I did it?
Styles Lab
sounds like a design studio or a badly named Chinese fashion house
or you...
Guest Lab
sounds like air bnb for scientists who want lab space while travelling 
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I probably won't even run a lab... But you know Brad's lab is called Love Lab, right?Http://bradlove.org/lab
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I would definitely call my lab Guest Lab tho. But seriously I don't think it'll happen. Not really cut out to be a PI and I don't really know what's going on with the world but it looks more like it'll end before I'm able to run a lab.


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I wish I legally had my mum's surname — as Koumoullis-Guest Lab has a really cool ring. And I don't care if it's hard to pronounce.

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Sure! And no problem with Love Lab
Different sub fields have different traditions so something that might seem normal in one place could seem strange somewhere else. Also, public facing groups (eg baby labs) have a slightly different agenda for community recognition. -
Separately, air bnb for travelling academics sounds like a winner!
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Oh, and don't count yourself out of the PI game just because you don't currently see yourself in that role. We can build the labs we want to see in the world
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I think we agree completely.

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I agree that for some it may be advantageous to have <surname> Lab. But it makes certain things harder. E.g. when