Felix Barber

Felix Barber

Random walks of a physicist in biology.

Publications

  1. Barber, F., Akbary, Z., Yuan, Z., Biboy, J., Vollmer, W., Rojas, E. R. (2026). Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis to maintain rod shape in Bacillus subtilis. Nature Microbiology 11(7), 1893–1906. doi bioRxiv research briefing
  2. Bardetti, P., Barber, F., Fitzmaurice, D., Rojas, E. R. (2026). Non-linear stress-softening of the bacterial cell wall confers cell shape homeostasis. Current Biology 36(5), 1156–1165.e5. doi
  3. Barber, F., Min, J., Murray, A. W., Amir, A. (2021). Modeling the impact of single-cell stochasticity and size control on the population growth rate in asymmetrically dividing cells. PLOS Computational Biology 17(6), e1009080. doi
  4. Barber, F., Amir, A., Murray, A. W. (2020). Cell size regulation in budding yeast does not depend on linear accumulation of Whi5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(25), 14243. doi
  5. Barber, F., Ho, P. Y., Murray, A., Amir, A. (2017). Details Matter: noise and model structure set the relationship between cell size and cell cycle timing. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 5, 92. doi
  6. Tallon, J. L., Barber, F., Storey, J. G., Loram, J. W. (2013). Coexistence of the superconducting energy gap and pseudogap above and below the transition temperature of cuprate superconductors. Physical Review B 87(14), 140508. doi
Eutardigrade imaged with scanning electron microscopy
Eutardigrade captured with scanning electron microscopy. I prepared this sample and acquired the micrograph as part of the MBL physiology course.