Magdalena is awarded an Antelope program
Magdalena has been accepted in the Antelope program of the University of Basel, in the section Antelope@university. Antelope is aimed at highly qualified female doctoral students . Over a 10-month period, the program…
Charlotte publishes a journal club article in the Journal of Neuroscience
Charlotte commented on the recently published paper by Johnson LA, Della Santina CC, Wang X entitled “Representations of time-varying cochlear implant stimulation in auditory cortex of awake marmosets” (J Neuroscience 2017). The journal club…
Welcome to Gioia and Nebojsa
The lab has two new members! Gioia de Franceschi joined us as a postdoc in November 2017, only days after having submitted her PhD in the lab of Dr Samual Solomon (University College…
Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium
Rasmus attended the 6th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Neural network in health and disease in his new hometown of Cambridge, UK. He presented a poster entitled “Cortical tuning curves dictate tone discrimination”.
Charlotte publishes a commentary in eNeuro
Charlotte commented on the paper by Johnson LA, Della Santina CC, Wang X entitled “Selective neuronal activation by cochlear implant stimulation in auditory cortex of awake primate” (J Neuroscience 2016), as published in eNeuro…
Rasmus is on the radio to explain how the brain hears
Rasmus was invited at the danish radio P2 as a neuroscientist expert in hearing to discuss how the brain hears, in the radio’s series “P2 fejrer lyd” (P2 celebrate sounds). Rasmus also…
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…
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