Publications
Optical developments
Brunstein M, Lubetzki J, Li W, Moutoussamy C, and Barral J (2023). Fast 2-photon stimulation using holographic patterns. Optics Express 31(23): 39222-39238 (DOI)
Auditory processing
Marin, N, Lobo Cerna F and Barral J (2022) Signatures of cochlear processing in neuronal coding of auditory information. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 120:103732 (DOI)
Neuronal networks
Barral J, Wang XJ and Reyes AD (2019) Propagation of temporal and rate signals in cultured multilayer networks. Nature Communications 10: e3969 (DOI)
Barral J and Reyes AD (2017) Optogenetic stimulation and recording of primary cultured neurons with spatiotemporal control. Bio-Protocol 7(12): e2335 (DOI)
Barral J and Reyes AD (2016). Synaptic scaling rules preserves excitatory/inhibitory balance and salient neuronal dynamics. Nature Neuroscience 19 : 1690-1690 (DOI)
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Hair cells
Roldán E, Barral J, Martin P, Parrondo JMR, and Jülicher F (2021). Quantifying entropy production in active fluctuations of the hair-cell bundle from time irreversibility and uncertainty relations. New Journal of Physics 23 : 083013 (DOI)
Barral J, Jülicher F, and Martin P (2018). Friction from transduction channels’ gating affects spontaneous hair-bundle oscillations. Biophysical Journal 114 : 425-436 (DOI)
Bormuth V, Barral J, Joanny JF, Jülicher F, and Martin P (2015). Hair-bundle friction from transduction channels’ gating forces. AIP Conf. Proc. 1703, 030003 (DOI)
Bormuth V, Barral J, Joanny JF, Jülicher F, and Martin P (2014). Transduction channels' gating can control friction on vibrating hair-cell bundles in the ear. P.N.A.S. 111 : 7185-90 (DOI)
Dinis L, Martin P, Barral J, Prost J, and Joanny JF (2012). Fluctuation-response theorem for the active noisy oscillator of the hair-cell bundle. Phys Rev Lett. 109: 160602-5 (DOI)
Barral J and Martin P (2012). Phantom tones and suppressive masking by active nonlinear oscillation of the hair-cell bundle. P.N.A.S. 109 : E1344-51 (DOI)
Comment in Nature Physics
Barral J and Martin P (2011). The physical basis of active mechanosensitivity by the hair-cell bundle. Cur. Op. in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. 19 : 369-375 (DOI)
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Barral J, Dierkes K, Lindner B, Jülicher J, and Martin P (2010). Coupling a sensory hair-cell bundle to cyber clones enhances nonlinear amplification. P.N.A.S. 107 : 8079-8084 (DOI)
Comments in Physics Today and in Journal of Experimental Biology
Michalski N, Michel V, Bahloul A, Lefèvre G, Barral J, Yagi H, Chardenoux S, Weil D, Martin P, Hardelin J-P, Sato M, and Petit C (2007). Molecular characterization of the ankle-link complex in cochlear hair cells and its role in the hair bundle functioning. J. Neurosci.. 27 : 6478-6488 (DOI)
Other stuffs
Palacci J, Sacanna S, Abramian A, Barral J, Hanson K, Grosberg, Pine DJ, and Chaikin PM (2015). Artificial rheotaxis. Science Advances 1: e1400214 (DOI)