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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Feel like letting it out?
Check this out: https://lookslikeyouneediceland.com/ (doesn’t have to be a scream only – could be a piece of poetry too…) Oh Iceland you will always surprise me!
An auditory experience by Susan Philipsz at the Beyeler Fondation
Seven Tears, a work from the Fondation Beyeler’s collection, is based on the famous piece “lachrimae (Seaven Teares)” from 1604 by John Dowland. In Susan Philipsz’s installation, each vinly record plays a…
Listening happens in the brain, not in the ears…
An article was published in the University of Basel’s English-language blog “Sci Five” (Medium) on our research on critical periods in the developing auditory system (Bhumika et al, 2019; Nakamura et al.,…
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…
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