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Florian was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship
Congratulations to our postdoc Florian Studer who just got awarded a MSCA fellowship! We are very much looking forward to exploring auditory learning in more details.
Charlotte’s manuscript is accepted for publication
Charlotte’s manuscript “Ramped pulse shape are more efficient for cochlear implant stimulation in an animal model”, showing how changing the pulse shape for the stimulation of mouse cochlear implants can be beneficial,…
Lab Retreat 2020
We started the year with a lab retreat in Tanay (VS, Switzerland) on January 6 and 7 2020. In addition to discussing the next big questions in (auditory) neuroscience, we also talked…
Two papers accepted for publication!
Rasmus’s paper “White noise background improves tone discrimination by suppressing cortical tuning curves” has been accepted for publication at Cell Reports, and Stiti’s paper “A late critical period for frequency modulated sweeps…
Welcome to Florian
Florian joined us as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2019. Adding to his expertise in electrophysiology and rabies virus tracing acquired during his PhD in the lab of Antoine Depaulis, Florian will…
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer schools
Gioia and Magdalena have both been accepted in 2019 CSHL summer schools: Gioia at the CSH Asia Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience course , Magdalena at the Neural Data Science Course We wish you…
Magdalena’s manuscript is accepted for publication
Magdalena’s paper “Distinct processing of tone offset in two primary auditory cortices” has been accepted for publication at Scientific Reports. Congratulations for this beautiful work Magda! (Picture: Magdalena’s happy face when she…
Magdalena spends two weeks in Steve Lomber’s lab
As part of the Expert Exchange of the Antelope program, Magdalena spent two weeks in the Cerebral Systems Lab headed by Steve Lomber at the Western University, London, Canada. She gave 2…
Welcome to Elisabetta
Elisabetta joined us as a PhD student in January 2019. With her background in bioengineering and neuroprosthetics, she is coming with a new great set of skills to the lab. We are…
Charlotte’s paper is published in JoVe
Charlotte’s paper “Cochlear implant surgery and electrically-evoked auditory brainsten recordings in C57BL/6 mice” is published. Well done Charlotte!
High wire Park with the group
The whole lab went for a day in the mountains – and in the trees of Wasserfallen! – with Kelly Tan and Jan Gründemann’s lab. It was a beautiful fall day – and…
Welcome to Patricia
Patricia Valerio joined our lab in April 2018 as an intern, and has this month enrolled as a PhD student. Patricia’s project will be centered around the juvenile development of the central…
A day in the snow
We took a day off and went sledging with the group of Jan Gründemann in Engelberg. The race was tough, but superfun. It was great to spend this sunny day all together!
Magdalena is awarded an Antelope program
Magdalena has been accepted in the Antelope program of the University of Basel, in the section Antelope@university. Antelope is aimed at highly qualified female doctoral students . Over a 10-month period, the program…
Charlotte publishes a journal club article in the Journal of Neuroscience
Charlotte commented on the recently published paper by Johnson LA, Della Santina CC, Wang X entitled “Representations of time-varying cochlear implant stimulation in auditory cortex of awake marmosets” (J Neuroscience 2017). The journal club…
Welcome to Gioia and Nebojsa
The lab has two new members! Gioia de Franceschi joined us as a postdoc in November 2017, only days after having submitted her PhD in the lab of Dr Samual Solomon (University College…
Charlotte publishes a commentary in eNeuro
Charlotte commented on the paper by Johnson LA, Della Santina CC, Wang X entitled “Selective neuronal activation by cochlear implant stimulation in auditory cortex of awake primate” (J Neuroscience 2016), as published in eNeuro…
Magdalena’s master project is published in Hearing Research
Magdalena’s work on toxicity-induced hair cell death from her master project within the lab of Pascal Senn has been published in the journal Hearing Research. Magdalena is first co-author. Perny, M*., Solyga, M*.,…
Welcome to Magdalena
Magdalena Solyga joined our lab in November 2016 as a PhD student. After having worked on the middle ear and hair cells, she is now eager to understand how sounds are processed…
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