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…
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…
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