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    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…

    TEDxBasel

    I was invited to give a talk at TEDxBasel in 2020, and – covid oblige – it finally took place this year. I talked about how “you listen with your brain, not…

    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…

    Double congratulations to Florian

    In the same week, Florian had two good reasons to celebrate: his review “Inihibtion in the auditory cortex” got accepted for publication at Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews – and – on a…

    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…

    VAMPHEAR

    Very excited and honoured to be partnering with Nicolas Renier from the Paris Brain Institute and Nicolas Michalski from the Hearing Institute of Paris to work on a project with the mysterious…