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…
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,…
Welcome to Nicole
Nicole Schütz joined our floor as the new research assistant of Benny Bettler’s and our group on Octboer 15, 2022. Although her role in our lab is new, Nicole has been in…
Welcome to Tommaso
Tommaso Zeppillo joined our lab as a PhD student in October 2022. He completed a master in neuroscience at the University of Trieste, Italy. Tommaso is bringing his expertise in synaptic physiology…
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…
Congratulations Dr Valerio
Patricia defended her PhD entitled “Juvenile development of the mouse central auditory sytem”, with an excellent presentation followed by a very well defended round of questions. The defense was hybrid and took…
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…
Patricia at the Native Scientist
On June 25, Patricia participated in a Workshop organized by the Native Scientist in Zurich. Native Scientist is a science outreach organization aiming to connect scientists and children across Europe to reduce…
The sounds of silence
Yvonne Vahlensieck wrote a very nice article about our lab’s research, focusing on the work on the relevance and mechanisms of offset responses by Magdalena. The article was published in UniNova, the…
I spotted a mouse…
On my way to the (beautifully defended) PhD defense of Agnès Landemard, a student of Yves Boubenec and Shihab Shamma at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), I spotted a mouse. It even…
Mon Dieu Mon Dieu que le Silence est beau
I strongly recommend the beautiful exhibition about Louise Bourgeois at the Basel Kunstmuseum (until May 15). It made me discover this unconvential artist in such a new way – and how talented…
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…
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…
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