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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…
Dinner in the dark
Gioia, Magdalena, Patricia, Nebojsa and Tania wanted to try a type of sensory experience all together: a dinner in the complete darkness, at the Blindekuh in Basel. We used our touch much more, our…
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…
An exhibition on music machines at the Tinguely museum
Don’t they look a little like brains, wheels turning at different speeds, affecting the next “connections” and sometime creating predicted or unexpected noises…or were they sounds? To explore at the Tinguely museum…
Lab Retreat 2016
This year’s lab retreat took place in Oberer Morgarten (Switzerland) from October 17 to October 20. In addition to excellent discussions on the neural processing of attention, feelings, sound loudness, the consequences…
Welcome to Henrik and Charlotte
Two new lab members are joining us. Henrik Lindén has joined us in April 2016 from Copenhagen University as adjunkt in computational neuroscience. Charlotte has joined us in May 2016 as a PhD student; she will conduct…
Famous neuroscientists in their natural habitat
We had the visit (and evaluation) of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel. In addition to having great discussions with the 2 neuroscientists board members, we found…
Lab retreat 2015
For our lab retreat this year, Tania took us to the place where she grew up, Tanay, in Wallis – the most mountainous canton in Switzerland. As it was challenging to find 2…
Ready Set Go!
First Tuning curves in Basel, by Mari Nakamura and Stiti Bhumika… experiments are rolling now!
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