Weekly lab meetings are an integral part of our culture.  They serve as a sounding board for new ideas and concepts, a chance to present and critique experimental design, group input into logistics planning, help in interpreting preliminary results, assisted decision making, requests for hands in upcoming large experiments, discussions of lab operations, planning social events, and practice for upcoming presentations.  We convene in an informal lunch-time atmosphere that facilitates collegial discussion.  Each student takes a turn every semester.  Typically a new student uses their first meeting to present a research proposal and solicit feedback.  Their next meeting is usually devoted to honing the fine points of their proposal, often matters of experimental design and pragmatic choices.  Subsequent meetings are for presenting results, interpreting data, and practice for presentations at meetings.   Sometimes students volunteer to lead sessions on areas in which they have gained particular expertise such as analytical chemistry procedure, a new statistical analysis, or how to sharpen a chain saw.  And when students go abroad for either research or pleasure, they often present a travelogue.  Over time, the schedules of these lab meetings also provide a nice road map of our journeys as a group.