生命科学的发展，离不开与化学、物理学、数学等基础科学和工程技术领域的交叉和融合，其他学科带来的理论和技术是生命科学发展的动力和源泉。同时，生命科学也为这些基础科学的研究提出了新的研究方向。

本实验在关注重大疾病和罕见遗传病科学问题的同时，非常注重培养学生的交叉学科思维方式和技能。在本实验室既可以学习到细胞生物学，生物化学，分子生物学等传统生物学技能，还有机会深入接触化学生物学，合成生物学等交叉学科的新式研究技能，体会交叉学科的研究思想。

以下是对林世贤研究员有重要影响的交叉科学研究思想和科学家：

Your view of biology may be biased by the specific expertise or focus of your graduate or postgraduate chemical biology lab, so expose yourself to a more traditional biology lab before becoming an independent chemical biology researcher.       

Peng Chen

Be multilingual in communicating the value of chemistry and chemical approaches to biological discovery, but work on advancing fundamental knowledge in chemical space. Innovative chemistry will lead to innovative biology, if not now, then potentially in the future.       

Christopher J. Chang

It's important to identify new questions, dive into real biology and establish your own identity. You need to speak the language of biologists and work closely with them.

Chuan He

To continue to embrace the complexity of biological systems, new chemical methods to interrogate the structure and function of such systems in their intact forms (in cells or animals, including humans) represent an exciting frontier.                                                                           

Benjamin F. Cravatt

Deciphering the chemistry by which cells sense and integrate environmental signals into computations that lead to decisions and cell responses. We need technologies for multiplexed parallel and quantitative assessment of disparate biomolecules (biopolymers, lipids, ions, metabolites, etc.) in live cells and in real time to study the chemical circuits underlying cell responses.

Carolyn R. Bertozzi