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…and advances in neural stimulation strategies: This is what was discussed at the BrainCoder conference, taking place February 19-21 in Gardanne, France – including talks by James and Tania. The lineup of…

The Swiss Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting took place in Lausanne on February 6-7 2025, including a program by the ySSN, a public lecture by Gregoir Courtine and Jocelyn Bloch, a “meet…

Together with the Hearlight consortium partners, we are organising the BrainCoder conference, that will take place Feb 20-21 2025 in Gardanne (close to Aix-la-Chapelle). Look it up here, and register before December…

Maria and Tania spent a week in the beautiful institute for physicist of Cargese, Corsica, France. The conference “Maturation and plasticity of biological and artificial networks“, organized by Georges Debregeas and Remi…

The Mismatch negativity (MMN) conference 2024 to place in Alicante from Sept 17-19. Manuel Malmierca and his team put up an excellent program, both scientifically and beyond, to make this gathering a…

Maria and I attended the Brain FENS conference on “Structuring knowledge for flexible beahvior”. We got excellent feedback on my talk and Maria’s poster, presenting “Neural computation underlying transfer of learning”.  Thank…

The Giessbach meeting 2023 innovated by …not being at Giessbach, but at Les Rasses instead! Everyhting else stayed the same: the excellent and very inspiring scientific talks, the exchanges among swiss neuroscientists,…

Florian attended the GRC conference on “Assembly and Function of Inhibitory Neurons in Health and Disease” that took place in July in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. He got excellent feedback on his poster…

Together with Flavio Donato (Biozentrum), Johannes Felsenberg (FMI), and Rava da Silveira (IOB), we launched a new seminar series: the Basel Neuroscience Workshops. In four afternoons per year, the circuit neuroscience community…

The ICAC2020 (International Conference on Auditory Cortex 2020) finally took place in September 2022 – covid obliged. But the wait was wirth it – what rich, encouraging and inspiring exchanges happened within…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Both Magdalena’s and Sebastian’s abstracts were selected for this year’s edition of Cosyne: Poster 3-114: The emergence and function of cortical offset responses in sound termination detection Poster 3-110: Two distinct mechanisms…

Tania has been presenting the work summarized in two of the lab’s recent papers (Cerebral Cortex 2019, Cell Reports 2020) at different occasions around Europe (via zoom): at the University of Geneva…

The symposium “Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience” (APAN) was held online this year – and our lab was there in number. All group members attended, and Magdalena, Patricia and Tania presented…