- Grants
- Hearing
ERC Starting Grant awarded
It is official: ActivEAR has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Time to build a lab around the cellular mechanisms that power the ear active process.
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Papers, grants, and notes from the lab on the biophysics of hearing.
- Tribute
Remembering Jim Hudspeth
A personal tribute to A. James Hudspeth (1945-2025), pioneer of hair-cell biophysics and my mentor at The Rockefeller University.
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- Papers
- Hearing
New paper: amplification through criticality in the cochlea
The ear spends energy to amplify the very stimuli it detects. We show this active process operates locally, near criticality at a Hopf bifurcation, a principle that unifies hearing across the animal kingdom.
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- Grants
- Hearing
My ERC Starting Grant proposal passes to Stage 2
ActivEAR has been invited to Stage 2 of the ERC Starting Grant evaluation, an important step forward in a highly competitive process.
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- Papers
- Hearing
- Theory
Hearing in a dish
Your ear has an in-built amplifier whose workings are still unknown. We developed a method that overcomes a long-standing barrier and lets us study it outside the living organism.
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- Papers
- Hearing
Using Light to Study Sound
A laser-based technique delivers photonic force fast enough to move inner-ear hair bundles.
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