Connor Lafo is a student at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA. He successfully applied for a DAAD RISE Germany fellowship and will be hosted in the Cell Biology lab of Hannes Herrmann for the upcoming three months. Our PhD student Annika Egeler has set up a small project for Connor and will be supervising him during his stay. We wish a successful and pleasent time!
RISE stands for Research Internships in Science and Engineering and RISE Germany offers undergraduate students from North American, British and Irish universities the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and research institutions. RISE Germany is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (further information on the program is available here).