On October 16-22, Ákos had the opportunity to visit Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA. The visit was part of and exchange program between the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and MATE. During the last 5 years, we had the pleasure of hosting undergraduate students from CALS on a summer internship and now it was our turn to see and experience the atmosphere of Cornell. Ákos was accompanied by two colleagues from the Department of Zoology and Ecology of MATE, Professor Péter István Nagy and senior lecturer Gergely Boros as well as by Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Coordinator Zsuzsanna Heltai. We were hosted primarily by Dr. Márk Sárváry, alumnus of MATE who works as a Director of Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories at CALS and whose help was simply invaluable in our daily life at Cornell. We had the pleasure of meeting the students that we hosted during last summer when they presented the experiences of their stay in Hungary. We also had the privilege of meeting distinguished scientists of research fields related to ours and discuss the possibilities of collaboration. Last but not least, Ákos was super-excited to meet Jelena Lujić, alumna of the Fish Reproduction Group at MATE, our former post doc who now works in the prestigious Cohen Lab of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell.
