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    Optimize the bionic ear to get it in better shape

    Charlotte wrote a super nice “Behind the paper” blogpost on her last publication. Check it out here: [link] . With it we would also like to pay tribute to Jonathan Laudansky who…

    Welcome to Catherine

    Catherine Perrodin, a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoc at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at the University College London, is visiting our lab for some months. Welcome Catherine, great to have you in…

  • Swiss Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2020

    Patricia and Elisabetta presented posters at the Swiss Society of Neuroscience meeting 2020, taking place at the university of Bern on February 22 2020.

    Florian was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship

    Congratulations to our postdoc Florian Studer who just got awarded a MSCA fellowship! We are very much looking forward to exploring auditory learning in more details.

    Charlotte’s manuscript is accepted for publication

    Charlotte’s manuscript “Ramped pulse shape are more efficient for cochlear implant stimulation in an animal model”, showing how changing the pulse shape for the stimulation of mouse cochlear implants can be beneficial,…

    Patricia is attending the Winter School Neural Networks 2020

    Patricia got accepted to participate in the PSL Qlife Winter School on Neural Networks 2020, taking place in the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris, February 3-7 2020.  She will learn a lot…

    Lab Retreat 2020

    We started the year with a lab retreat in Tanay (VS, Switzerland) on January 6 and 7 2020. In addition to discussing the next big questions in (auditory) neuroscience, we also talked…

    Good noise, bad noise: white noise improves hearing

    Our Cell Reports paper is advertised for in the Uni news! Thank you Iris Mickein for the nice article. It has also been noticed by the swiss radio, who called me for an interview on…

    Symposium on the auditory system at FENS 2020

    There will be a symposium on “Neuronal circuit dissection in the central auditory system” at FENS 2020. The speakers include Andrew King, (University of Oxford, UK), Brice Bathellier (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Andrea…

    Neurex meeting on Excitation/Inhibition balance

    Neurex’s meeting on excitation – inhibition balance: the role of GABAergic synapse diversity was organised in Basel on October 10-11 2019. Tania gave a talk on “critical periods of plasticity in the…

    Two papers accepted for publication!

    Rasmus’s paper “White noise background improves tone discrimination by suppressing cortical tuning curves” has been accepted for publication at Cell Reports, and Stiti’s paper “A late critical period for frequency modulated sweeps…

    Inauguration meeting of the Hearing Institute

    Patricia, Magdalena and Tania went to the inauguration meeting of the Hearing Institute in Paris, September 16-19 2019. The talks were most inspiring and the feedback Magdalena and Tania got on their posters very…

    Welcome to Florian

    Florian joined us as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2019. Adding to his expertise in electrophysiology and rabies virus tracing acquired during his PhD in the lab of Antoine Depaulis, Florian will…

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer schools

    Gioia and Magdalena have both been accepted in 2019 CSHL summer schools: Gioia at the CSH Asia Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience course , Magdalena at the Neural Data Science Course We wish you…

    Magdalena’s manuscript is accepted for publication

    Magdalena’s paper “Distinct processing of tone offset in two primary auditory cortices” has been accepted for publication at Scientific Reports. Congratulations for this beautiful work Magda! (Picture: Magdalena’s happy face when she…

    H.E.I – Sound walks in the port of Basel

    Auditory Experience #3 An interactive hearing experience on the Klybeckquai port of Basel: www.heiguide.ch The project is conceived as a piece of art from the Atelier Hauert Reichmuth, but is also the…

    Magdalena spends two weeks in Steve Lomber’s lab

    As part of the Expert Exchange of the Antelope program, Magdalena spent two weeks in the  Cerebral Systems Lab headed by Steve Lomber at the Western University, London, Canada. She gave 2…

    Basel Theater with the lab

    At the Basel Theater with the lab – Feb 20 2019

    Swiss Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2019

    Tania gave a talk at the Swiss Society of Neuroscience meeting 2019 in the Wyss Center in Geneva. She was part of a session on Learning and neural plasticity in sensory systems,…

    Welcome to Elisabetta

    Elisabetta joined us as a PhD student in January 2019. With her background in bioengineering and neuroprosthetics, she is coming with a new great set of skills to the lab. We are…