HHMI, the organization that helped fund both researchers, created their first campus, Janelia (https://www.janelia.org/about-us https://www.janelia.org/about-us

HHMI, the organization that helped fund both researchers, created their first campus, Janelia (https://www.janelia.org/about-us https://www.janelia.org/about-us), with that in mind. The wide open spaces and architecture as well as the pub "Bob's" provides plenty of places to chat. Janelia also holds dozens of conferences a year where researchers can relax together after sessions and chat. The architecture of Stanford Bio-X's Clark Center (https://biox.stanford.edu/about/clark-center https://biox.stanford.edu/about/clark-center) targeted spontaneous meetings and discussion. There's a coffee shop on the third floor and wide open-air stairs in case you bump into someone.