Brain machine interfaces
…and advances in neural stimulation strategies: This is what was discussed at the BrainCoder conference, taking place February 19-21 in Gardanne, France – including talks by James and Tania. The lineup of…
Swiss Society for Neuroscience Meeting
The Swiss Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting took place in Lausanne on February 6-7 2025, including a program by the ySSN, a public lecture by Gregoir Courtine and Jocelyn Bloch, a “meet…
Welcome to Kitana
Kitana Desvignes is in the final stages of completing her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science at the Pharmacology Department, University of Cantabria (Spain). She joined our lab in February 2025 to complete…
New paper by Rasmus and Florian
The paper by Rasmus and Florian, dissecting how background white noise can modify perception by increasing neuronal activity, reducing membrane fluctuations and slow-wave oscillations in auditory cortex. Real tour-de force including patch-clamping…
Christmas Party 2024
Everybody dressed up for the lab’s Christmas Party – what beautiful people!
New grant for James!
James was awarded a grant from the University of Basel’s Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers. This will allow him to continue his project about brain stimulations. Congratulations James!
The art of giving sense to our perception
Tania was invited to give a talk at an event called “The art of giving sense to our perception: neuroscience and art”. The event was organised by Leo Cusin and Angéline Wettig…
Our research in a SWR Kultur radio show by Marisa Gierlinger
The journalist Marisa Gierlinger made an excellent radio show in Listening, aired on SWR Kultur on November 7. If you understand german, do listen to it here. It puts our research in…
BrainCoder Conference
Together with the Hearlight consortium partners, we are organising the BrainCoder conference, that will take place Feb 20-21 2025 in Gardanne (close to Aix-la-Chapelle). Look it up here, and register before December…
Cargese 2024 conference
Maria and Tania spent a week in the beautiful institute for physicist of Cargese, Corsica, France. The conference “Maturation and plasticity of biological and artificial networks“, organized by Georges Debregeas and Remi…
10th MMN2024 conference
The Mismatch negativity (MMN) conference 2024 to place in Alicante from Sept 17-19. Manuel Malmierca and his team put up an excellent program, both scientifically and beyond, to make this gathering a…
Lab Offsite 2024
The lab offsite 2024 edition brought us to Radolfzell at the Lake Constance. Sebastian organized 2 excellent days (from July 1 to 3), where we had time to discuss the next projects…
Entrepreneurship training for James
James participated in an Entrepreneurship training offered by the Swiss Innovation Agency in cooperation with Innosuisse, and organized by the Innovation Office of the University of Basel. James acquired theoretical and practical…
Welcome to Irenäus
Irenäus Stec holds a Swiss Federal Medical Diploma after completing a bachelor and master of Medicine at the University of Basel. He joined the lab as MD/PhD student in June 2024 and…
Our research is discussed at CQFD
Sarah Dirren, a journalist of the Swiss radio rts at CQFD, visited our lab to discuss our research. Two shows/podcasts (in French) resulted from it: -one discussing how the brain processes sounds,…
A new SNSF project grant for the lab
The SNSF evaluated our grant positively and decided to support it. This will allow us to get a new understanding of “the development basis of categorization”, a theme we will focus on…
Welcome to Loïc
Loïc Anezo holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry & Biology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Strasbourg (France). Currently, he is in the final stages of completing his…
Surprise! – How the brain learns to deal with the unexpected
Patricia’s paper, “Sequential maturation of stimulus-specific adaptation in the lemniscal auditory pathway” is out at Science Advances. It has been well discussed in the news, including an article from Angelika Jacobs in…
Podcast Primenews UniBâle
I was interviewed for a podcast in the series UniBâle from primenews to tell about our research – and hearing in general. If you are open for some broken german, listen to…
Lab Retreat 2023
Tommaso, with the help of Nicole, organised an excellent retreat for the 2023 edition, in a remote cottage lost in the black forest, not far from Todtnau (Germany). We spent 2 days…
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