Lab Retreat 2020
We started the year with a lab retreat in Tanay (VS, Switzerland) on January 6 and 7 2020. In addition to discussing the next big questions in (auditory) neuroscience, we also talked…
Good noise, bad noise: white noise improves hearing
Our Cell Reports paper is advertised for in the Uni news! Thank you Iris Mickein for the nice article. It has also been noticed by the swiss radio, who called me for an interview on…
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…
Two papers accepted for publication!
Rasmus’s paper “White noise background improves tone discrimination by suppressing cortical tuning curves” has been accepted for publication at Cell Reports, and Stiti’s paper “A late critical period for frequency modulated sweeps…
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…
Welcome to Florian
Florian joined us as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2019. Adding to his expertise in electrophysiology and rabies virus tracing acquired during his PhD in the lab of Antoine Depaulis, Florian will…
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer schools
Gioia and Magdalena have both been accepted in 2019 CSHL summer schools: Gioia at the CSH Asia Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience course , Magdalena at the Neural Data Science Course We wish you…
Magdalena’s manuscript is accepted for publication
Magdalena’s paper “Distinct processing of tone offset in two primary auditory cortices” has been accepted for publication at Scientific Reports. Congratulations for this beautiful work Magda! (Picture: Magdalena’s happy face when she…
H.E.I – Sound walks in the port of Basel
Auditory Experience #3 An interactive hearing experience on the Klybeckquai port of Basel: www.heiguide.ch The project is conceived as a piece of art from the Atelier Hauert Reichmuth, but is also the…
Magdalena spends two weeks in Steve Lomber’s lab
As part of the Expert Exchange of the Antelope program, Magdalena spent two weeks in the Cerebral Systems Lab headed by Steve Lomber at the Western University, London, Canada. She gave 2…
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 Learn and neural plasticity in sensory systems,…
Welcome to Elisabetta
Elisabetta joined us as a PhD student in January 2019. With her background in bioengineering and neuroprosthetics, she is coming with a new great set of skills to the lab. We are…
Charlotte’s paper is published in JoVe
Charlotte’s paper “Cochlear implant surgery and electrically-evoked auditory brainsten recordings in C57BL/6 mice” is published. Well done Charlotte!
High wire Park with the group
The whole lab went for a day in the mountains – and in the trees of Wasserfallen! – with Kelly Tan and Jan Gründemann’s lab. It was a beautiful fall day – and…
In die TagesWoche: how sounds can affect the brain
Andrea Fopp from the local Basel journal die TagesWoche came to the Biozentrum to discuss with Tania about how sounds can affect the brain. The related article is incorporate in a thematic…
Welcome to Patricia
Patricia Valerio joined our lab in April 2018 as an intern, and has this month enrolled as a PhD student. Patricia’s project will be centered around the juvenile development of the central…
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…
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