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…
Transdisciplinary exchanges at the Uni Basel
The university of Basel creates stimulating platforms to forster exchanges, discussions, and projects across the different research areas. Two of my favourite platforms in this context are the Carte Blanche Events for…
The Brain FENS conference 2023
Maria and I attended the Brain FENS conference on “Structuring knowledge for flexible beahvior”. We got excellent feedback on my talk and Maria’s poster, presenting “Neural computation underlying transfer of learning”. Thank…
The golden pipette for Maria
Maria is bringing the trophy back home! She got the award for the best talk at the department’s PhD retreat 2023, for her presentation entitled Role of Critical Period in Categorization Formation.…
Welcome to Nataša
Nataša Jovanović joined our lab in September 2023 as a visiting scientist, as part of an exchange for the last year of her PhD studies. She started her PhD at the Charles…
Giessbach meeting 2023
The Giessbach meeting 2023 innovated by …not being at Giessbach, but at Les Rasses instead! Everyhting else stayed the same: the excellent and very inspiring scientific talks, the exchanges among swiss neuroscientists,…
2023 Inhibition in the CNS GRC conference
Florian attended the GRC conference on “Assembly and Function of Inhibitory Neurons in Health and Disease” that took place in July in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. He got excellent feedback on his poster…
Publication from the HearLight collaboration
The Hearlight project, in which we are one of the 6 partners, is mostly stimulating and resulting in super exciting data. Some of them have just been published: Design, Characterization, and In…
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…
Welcome to Veronique and Pauline
As a fate of the academic world, lab members are changing. While we say goodbye to our dear Patricia and wish her lots of success in her new job, we welcome Veronique…
First publication with 2P data from the lab
Sebastian’s first data set acquired with 2P has been published in eLife. In a collaboration with the group of Benny Bettler, the data explores the effect of a peptide (APP) on GABAB…
The 3 spatial spheres of listening
As a new auditory experience, we invited the compositor and musician Beat Gysin from studio-klangraum to our lab to make an auditory experience with the group: while losing the notion of space,…
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