December is always an eventful month in the lab, and keeping up with the news has taken a bit of a backseat as there was much cool science to focus on! At the end of November I took a short trip to Switzerland to visit Tania Barkat’s Brain & Sound Lab at Basel University. I really enjoyed meeting this welcoming and talented team as well our good discussions of mouse auditory processing. We also laid the foundation for a fun research collaboration that I’m looking forward to taking further in the new year.