Giessbach 2017
This year’s Giessbach metting took place from May 4 to 6, with Yang Dan (UC Berkeley) as the guest speaker. Tania gave a talk entitled “Linking the neural code to a behavioral…
Magdalena’s master project is published in Hearing Research
Magdalena’s work on toxicity-induced hair cell death from her master project within the lab of Pascal Senn has been published in the journal Hearing Research. Magdalena is first co-author. Perny, M*., Solyga, M*.,…
Charlotte explains how sounds affect the brain
Charlotte gave a public lecture on How sounds affect the brain at a Sound and Science event taking place at the Bolsjefabrikken in Copenhagen on April 20 2017. Topics related to auditory illusion,…
Article on the auditory system by Charlotte and Hans
Charlotte and Hans wrote a chapter about the auditory system in the book “The talented brain” (Den talentfulde Hjerne) edited this year by “hjerneforumet”. For danish readers, you can find the article by following this…
Welcome to Magdalena
Magdalena Solyga joined our lab in November 2016 as a PhD student. After having worked on the middle ear and hair cells, she is now eager to understand how sounds are processed…
Christina talks about animal experiments on TV
Christina participated in a danish TV show (DR) on Peter Panum, a famous danish physiologist (1820-1885) . Christina explained why animal experiments are necessary for advancing our knowledge of the functions of…
An exhibition on music machines at the Tinguely museum
Auditory experience #1 Don’t they look a little like brains, wheels turning at different speeds, affecting the next “connections” and sometime creating predicted or unexpected noises…or were they sounds? To explore at…
Lab Retreat 2016
This year’s lab retreat took place in Oberer Morgarten (Switzerland) from October 17 to October 20. In addition to excellent discussions on the neural processing of attention, feelings, sound loudness, the consequences…
“How does the brain work” workshop
Henrik has co-organised a workshop entitled “How does the brain work ” at the Carlsberg Academi, Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 14 to 16 2016. The goal of the workshop was to bring together…
ENCODS 2016
ENCODS 2016, a European Neuroscience Conference for Doctoral Students organised in relation to FENS, took place north of Copenhagen from June 29 to July 1. As a keynote speaker, Tania had the…
On why Basel is the place to be (at least for me!)
A little youtube recording explaining why I chose Basel…in german only: [link] I could cite many other reasons – just get in touch with me in case you want to know more…
Welcome to Henrik and Charlotte
Two new lab members are joining us. Henrik Lindén has joined us in April 2016 from Copenhagen University as adjunkt in computational neuroscience. Charlotte has joined us in May 2016 as a PhD student; she will conduct…
Tag der Biomedizin
The Department of Biomedicine of Basel University had open doors on April 9, 2016. A supplement describing the department and featuring among others our lab, was distributed in the local newspaper. It…
Radio show about Hearing and the Brain
A danish radio show (Romerriget on Radi24ysv) wanted to know more about what is going in the brain when a sound reaches our ear. In addition to Kamilla Angelo (senior researcher at Oticon), Peter…
Famous neuroscientists in their natural habitat
We had the visit (and evaluation) of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel. In addition to having great discussions with the 2 neuroscientists board members, we found…
The SNSF compensates for ERC Starting Grants
As a result of the Swiss vote on February 9th 2014, Swiss researchers who had obtained a ERC Starting Grant and were moving their lab back to Switzerland had to be give…
Lab retreat 2015
For our lab retreat this year, Tania took us to the place where she grew up, Tanay, in Wallis – the most mountainous canton in Switzerland. As it was challenging to find 2…
Ready Set Go!
First Tuning curves in Basel, by Mari Nakamura and Stiti Bhumika… experiments are rolling now!
Welcome to Mari, Stiti, Ivan and Christina
The lab is growing, as we have 4 new members joining the lab. Mari Nakamura joined us in March from Harvard University as the lab’s research assistant. Stitipragyan Bhumika joins us in…
Moving to the University of Basel
Tania is starting in January 2015 as an Assistant Professor in Neurophysiology at the University of Basel, where she will continue investigating the development and function of auditory circuits. While Rasmus and…
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