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The Brain & Sound Lab is Out and About
Our lab has been out and about in this late spring 2022. Here some updates: SPONT conference (June 6-8 2022, Alicante, Spain) for Patricia, with a poster presentation HeaR: from mechanisms to…
Lab Retreat 2022
Suyash organised a great retreat for the 2022 edition, in a dream place in the tiny village of Mittlerschwande, in Vitznau (Switzerland). We spent 3 days in the mountain, from February 9…
And 2 new papers out for Magdalena!
Magdalena’s two new papers, one demonstrating a role of AAF for temporal processing and the other demonstrating a role of A1 for spectral integration, have been published in eLife in December and…
Welcome to James
James Alexander Taylor joined our lab as a postdoc in January 2022. James finished his PhD in December 2021, after having worked on “Single cell plasticity and population coding stability in thalamic…
When the brain switches from hearing to listening
Gioia’s paper, “Task-induced modulations of neuronal activity along the auditory pathway” is out at Cell Reports. It has been well discussed in the news, including an article from Angelika Jacobs in the…
Double congratulations to Florian
In the same week, Florian had two good reasons to celebrate: his review “Inihibtion in the auditory cortex” got accepted for publication at Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews – and – on a…
Welcome to Maria
Maria Shujah joined our lab as PhD student in November 21. Being freshly graduated from the Elite graduate program of Biomedical Neuroscience from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, Maria will…
Charlotte’s paper accepted for publication
It is champagne time! Charlotte’s third paper, titled “The perception of ramped pulse shapes in cochlear implant users”, has been accepted for publication at Trends in Hearing. Charlotte managed to create an…
Escaping or not escaping
We went in an escape room with the lab, with the hope to prevent Magdalena from escaping the lab…allas it did not work, and she is off for her postdoc at the…
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…
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