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A BBRF young investigator grant to Sebastian!
Congratulations to our postdoc Sebastian Reinartz for being awarded a 2021 BBRF young investigator grant. We are very much looking forward to following the progress on his project, aimed at deciphering the…
Our department has a new management team
The Department of Biomedicine has a new management structure, lead by Ivan Martin. Tania is one of the 6 members of the new management team, in charge of a new resort: Communication…
Congratulations Dr Solyga!
Magdalena brilliantly defended her PhD , titled “Identifying functional roles of neural circuits in two primary auditory cortices”. It took place on zoom on June 24 2021 and included a public presentation followed…
Patricia selected at Antelope Novartis
Patricia has been selected to be part of the mentoring program between the University of Basel and Novartis, aimed at highly qualified doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers of the university. Officially known…
FET Open HearLight – Horizon 2020 grant
As part of a consortium lead by Brice Bathellier at the Hearing Institute, we received a Horizon 2020 FET Open grant. The title of the project is Hearlight: Towards optogenetic cortical implants…
Welcome to Diana and Sarantos
Our lab is growing: Diana Machado and Sarantos Mantzagriotis both joined our lab in February 2021 as a research assistants. Diana just brilliantly defended her master thesis and joins our lab to…
Congratulations Dr. Navntoft!
Charlotte brilliantly defended her PhD, titled “Improving cochlear implant performance with new pulse shapes: a multidisciplinary approach”. It took place at DTU and on zoom in a 3 hour long presentation and…
Welcome to Sebastian
Sebastian has joined our lab as postdoc in November 2020. Coming from the lab of Mathew Diamond with a deep knowledge of history-dependent perceptual judgment and context dependent perception of time in…
SNSF project grant funded
The Swiss National Science Foundation decided to fund our project on “Functional maturation of the central auditory system”. We are very excited to be able to follow this line of research in…
Mari’s manuscript is published today
Mari’s manuscript – Sequential organization of critical periods in the mouse auditory system – is online today at Cell Reports. Critical periods in the auditory system are feature dependent and asynchronous. Using…
First pre-print of the lab
So happy to see Gioia’s project out in bioRxiv: “Task-engagement modulation along the auditory pathway”. The manuscript reports the effect of attention, arousal, reward and movement in 4 different nuclei along the…
Neuromatch Academy 2020 for Magdalena and Elisabetta
Magdalena and Elisabetta have both been selected in the interactive track of the Neuromatch Academy 2020, a “worldwide academy to train neuroscientists to learn computational tools, make connections to real world neuroscience…
Welcome to Suyash
Suyahs Joshi has joined our lab in May 2020 as a postdoc. With his expertise in modelling and audiology, Suyash will add a new perspective to our research questions. We are all…
Welcome to Catherine
Catherine Perrodin, a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoc at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at the University College London, is visiting our lab for some months. Welcome Catherine, great to have you in…
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,…
Patricia is attending the Winter School Neural Networks 2020
Patricia got accepted to participate in the PSL Qlife Winter School on Neural Networks 2020, taking place in the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris, February 3-7 2020. She will learn a lot…
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…
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