Welcome to Patricia
Patricia Valerio joined our lab in April 2018 as an intern, and has this month enrolled as a PhD student. Patricia’s project will be centered around the juvenile development of the central…
GRC 2018 – Optogenetic approaches to understanding neural circuits and behavior
Tania attended the Gordon Research Conference on Optogenetic approaches to understanding neural circuits and behavior in Maine. The program was very stimulating – the field is moving quickly and in exciting directions! It…
FENS Forum 2018
Magdalena and Gioia participated in the FENS forum in Berlin, from July 7 to 11 2018. Magdalena got lots of attention and great feedback on her poster entitled “Distinct roles of primary…
Henrik gives a talk at “Cutting EEG”
Henrik got invited to give a seminar at the conference Cutting EEG in Paris on July 4 2018. His talk was entitled “Forward modeling single neurons and local networks.” Well done Henrik!
Dinner in the dark
Auditory experience #2 Gioia, Magdalena, Patricia, Nebojsa and Tania wanted to try a type of sensory experience all together: a dinner in the complete darkness, at the Blindekuh in Basel. We used our touch…
Giessbach 2018
This year’s Giessbach meeting took place from May 24-26 2018, with Ilana Witten, Princeton University and Catherine Dulac, Havard University as guest speakers. Tania gave a talk entitled “Sound features and plasticity during…
Neurex Auditory System Dysfunction Workshop
Neurex organised a workshop titled: AUDITORY SYSTEM DYSFUNCTIONS: FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH AND CLINICS The program included a lot of auditory periphery research, and Tania, Patricia and Magdalena learned a lot about cochlear functions! Tania…
Computational Neuroscience of Prediction
The Brain FENS Spring conference 2018 was discussing Computational Neuroscience of Prediction. Tania attended to get new inspiration…
A day in the snow
We took a day off and went sledging with the group of Jan Gründemann in Engelberg. The race was tough, but superfun. It was great to spend this sunny day all together!
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*.,…
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