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    Charlotte’s paper is published in JoVe

    Charlotte’s paper “Cochlear implant surgery and electrically-evoked auditory brainsten recordings in C57BL/6 mice” is published. Well done Charlotte!

    High wire Park with the group

    The whole lab went for a day in the mountains – and in the trees of Wasserfallen! – with Kelly Tan and Jan Gründemann’s lab. It was a beautiful fall day – and…

    In die TagesWoche: how sounds can affect the brain

    Andrea Fopp from the local Basel journal die TagesWoche came to the Biozentrum to discuss with Tania about how sounds can affect the brain. The related article is incorporate in a thematic…

    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…

    ICAC 2017

    The 6th International Conference on Auditory Cortex was for the first time held outside of Europe, in the beautiful canadian National Park Banff. Magdalena and Tania both presented posters.    

    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”.

    CNS 2017

    Henrik travelled to Antwerp, Belgium, to participate in the 26th international computational neuroscience meeting from July 15 to 20 2017. He got great feedback on his poster entitled: “Modeling sensory cortical population responses in…

    CIAP 2017

    Charlotte participated in the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis (CIAP) from June 16 to 21 at Lake Tahoe, CA. She presented in a poster her first data on cochlear implants in mice.The…

    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…