Transdisciplinary exchanges at the Uni Basel
The university of Basel creates stimulating platforms to forster exchanges, discussions, and projects across the different research areas. Two of my favourite platforms in this context are the Carte Blanche Events for…
The Brain FENS conference 2023
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 golden pipette for Maria
Maria is bringing the trophy back home! She got the award for the best talk at the department’s PhD retreat 2023, for her presentation entitled Role of Critical Period in Categorization Formation.…
Welcome to Nataša
Nataša Jovanović joined our lab in September 2023 as a visiting scientist, as part of an exchange for the last year of her PhD studies. She started her PhD at the Charles…
Giessbach meeting 2023
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,…
New grant for Sebastian!
Sebastian was awarded a grant from the University of Basel’s Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers. This will allow him to complete his project about the neuronal basis of duration perception. Congratulations…
2023 Inhibition in the CNS GRC conference
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…
Publication from the HearLight collaboration
The Hearlight project, in which we are one of the 6 partners, is mostly stimulating and resulting in super exciting data. Some of them have just been published: Design, Characterization, and In…
The Basel Neuroscience Workshops are launched
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…
Welcome to Veronique and Pauline
As a fate of the academic world, lab members are changing. While we say goodbye to our dear Patricia and wish her lots of success in her new job, we welcome Veronique…
First publication with 2P data from the lab
Sebastian’s first data set acquired with 2P has been published in eLife. In a collaboration with the group of Benny Bettler, the data explores the effect of a peptide (APP) on GABAB…
The 3 spatial spheres of listening
As a new auditory experience, we invited the compositor and musician Beat Gysin from studio-klangraum to our lab to make an auditory experience with the group: while losing the notion of space,…
Welcome to Nicole
Nicole Schütz joined our floor as the new research assistant of Benny Bettler’s and our group on Octboer 15, 2022. Although her role in our lab is new, Nicole has been in…
Welcome to Tommaso
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…
International Conference on Auditory Cortex
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…
Congratulations Dr Valerio
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…
The Brain & Sound Lab is Out and About
Our lab has been out and about in this late spring 2022. Here some updates: SPONT conference (June 6-8 2022, Alicante, Spain) for Patricia, with a poster presentation HeaR: from mechanisms to…
Patricia at the Native Scientist
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…
The sounds of silence
Yvonne Vahlensieck wrote a very nice article about our lab’s research, focusing on the work on the relevance and mechanisms of offset responses by Magdalena. The article was published in UniNova, the…
I spotted a mouse…
On my way to the (beautifully defended) PhD defense of Agnès Landemard, a student of Yves Boubenec and Shihab Shamma at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), I spotted a mouse. It even…
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