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Tommaso Zeppillo joined our lab as a PhD student in October 2022.  He completed a master in neuroscience at the University of Trieste, Italy. Tommaso is bringing his expertise in synaptic physiology…

Patricia defended her PhD entitled “Juvenile development of the mouse central auditory sytem”, with an excellent presentation followed by a very well defended round of questions. The defense was hybrid and took…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

As part of a consortium lead by Brice Bathellier at the Hearing Institute, we received a Horizon 2020 FET Open grant. The title of the project is Hearlight: Towards optogenetic cortical implants…

Our lab is growing: Diana Machado  and Sarantos Mantzagriotis both joined our lab in February 2021 as a research assistants. Diana just brilliantly defended her master thesis and joins our lab to…