Forschungsporträt in the UniNews
Interested in reading more about researchers at the University of Basel? Follow this link to see a few of them, including the one for our lab! Available both in german (original) and…
Welcome to Maria
Maria Shujah joined our lab as PhD student in November 21. Being freshly graduated from the Elite graduate program of Biomedical Neuroscience from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, Maria will…
Charlotte’s paper accepted for publication
It is champagne time! Charlotte’s third paper, titled “The perception of ramped pulse shapes in cochlear implant users”, has been accepted for publication at Trends in Hearing. Charlotte managed to create an…
Escaping or not escaping
We went in an escape room with the lab, with the hope to prevent Magdalena from escaping the lab…allas it did not work, and she is off for her postdoc at the…
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.,…
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