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The Basel Neuroscience Workshops are launched
Together with Flavio Donato (Biozentrum), Johannes Felsenberg (FMI), and Rava da Silveira (IOB), we launched a new seminar series: the Basel Neuroscience Workshops. In four afternoons per year, the circuit neuroscience community…
International Conference on Auditory Cortex
The ICAC2020 (International Conference on Auditory Cortex 2020) finally took place in September 2022 – covid obliged. But the wait was wirth it – what rich, encouraging and inspiring exchanges happened within…
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…
Brain Awareness Week 2022
I finally trusted my broken german enough and participated in the Brain Awareness Week 2022. Back in person, the places were all booked for an evening on “how real is reality”, with…
Giessbach meeting 2021
What a nice way to start the in-person meetings again, after an almost 2 year break due to the pandemic, with the Giessbach meeting. Held this year in September, with excellent talks…
LOOPS seminar
Livia de Hoz and Julio Hachavarria are organizing an online weekly seminar where international speakers talk about their work on subcortico-cortical loops from the perspective of different sensory modalities. All talks are…
Kinder Uni Basel 2021
The University of Basel has an excellent program for children aged 8-12 years old, including talks on all kind of subjects. Tania participated this year with a talk on “how does the…
Magdalena and Sebastian’s work at Cosyne 2021
Both Magdalena’s and Sebastian’s abstracts were selected for this year’s edition of Cosyne: Poster 3-114: The emergence and function of cortical offset responses in sound termination detection Poster 3-110: Two distinct mechanisms…
Seminars about our work on critical periods
Tania has been presenting the work summarized in two of the lab’s recent papers (Cerebral Cortex 2019, Cell Reports 2020) at different occasions around Europe (via zoom): at the University of Geneva…
FENS Forum 2020
We are very excited to be part of the FENS Forum 2020. You can find us at many different events: Magdalena Solyga is presenting her data at the poster 600: “Auditory offset…
Swiss Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2020
Patricia and Elisabetta presented posters at the Swiss Society of Neuroscience meeting 2020, taking place at the university of Bern on February 22 2020.
Symposium on the auditory system at FENS 2020
There will be a symposium on “Neuronal circuit dissection in the central auditory system” at FENS 2020. The speakers include Andrew King, (University of Oxford, UK), Brice Bathellier (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Andrea…
Neurex meeting on Excitation/Inhibition balance
Neurex’s meeting on excitation – inhibition balance: the role of GABAergic synapse diversity was organised in Basel on October 10-11 2019. Tania gave a talk on “critical periods of plasticity in the…
Inauguration meeting of the Hearing Institute
Patricia, Magdalena and Tania went to the inauguration meeting of the Hearing Institute in Paris, September 16-19 2019. The talks were most inspiring and the feedback Magdalena and Tania got on their posters very…
Swiss Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2019
Tania gave a talk at the Swiss Society of Neuroscience meeting 2019 in the Wyss Center in Geneva. She was part of a session on Learning and neural plasticity in sensory systems,…
GRC 2018 – Optogenetic approaches to understanding neural circuits and behavior
Tania attended the Gordon Research Conference on Optogenetic approaches to understanding neural circuits and behavior in Maine. The program was very stimulating – the field is moving quickly and in exciting directions! It…
FENS Forum 2018
Magdalena and Gioia participated in the FENS forum in Berlin, from July 7 to 11 2018. Magdalena got lots of attention and great feedback on her poster entitled “Distinct roles of primary…
Henrik gives a talk at “Cutting EEG”
Henrik got invited to give a seminar at the conference Cutting EEG in Paris on July 4 2018. His talk was entitled “Forward modeling single neurons and local networks.” Well done Henrik!
Giessbach 2018
This year’s Giessbach meeting took place from May 24-26 2018, with Ilana Witten, Princeton University and Catherine Dulac, Havard University as guest speakers. Tania gave a talk entitled “Sound features and plasticity during…
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