Internship and thesis proposals
Entropy production and fluctuation-response relations underlying active mechanosensitivity by the inner ear’s hair cells

Domaines
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Soft matter
Physics of liquids
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Physics of living systems
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics

Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique
Description
We propose to (i) to experimentally estimate the power dissipated by a sensory hair cell from a frog's ear to drive active oscillations of its mechanosensory hair bundle and (ii) to probe relations between response and fluctuations in this active system.

Contact
Pascal Martin
Laboratory : PCC - UMR168
Team : Active mechanosensitivity of inner ear hair cells
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