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 …
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It says "consider", not "you should"
I agree that for some it may be advantageous to have <surname> Lab. But it makes certain things harder. E.g. when @kellycaine invited me to co-direct her lab as an incoming faculty, I was happy that it wasn't called the "Caine Lab"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
I find the whole lab naming super weird... I avoided it for a long time, then students started calling us BIG Lab, which we backronymed into Big Interfaces Group, after our sister lab (future interfaces group)
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It goes on to state that it's feudalstic if you name your lab after yourself. So yeah, I needed to push back against that.
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It's not feudalism at all and personally if you name your lab in my field after what you study it's a mistake. What name do you think would fit for my lab? Our interests, Brad's in other words, dramatically change over time too. That's even worse if you're stuck with old name.
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Either way. I'm not saying don't name your lab after anything you want. But the OP was above and beyond strongly wordes against surname labs.
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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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