Publications (since 2000)
| 2009 |
Reconciling stochastic origin firing with defined replication timing
Nicholas Rhind, Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang and John Bechhoefer
Chromosome Res. published online: 19 November 2009 [PDF]
Computational methods to study kinetics of DNA replication
Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang, Michel G. Gauthier and John Bechhoefer
in DNA Replication: Methods and Protocols, ed. S. Vengrova and J. Z. Dalgaard, Humana Press,
c/o Springer Science + Business Media, New York, NY, 2009, pp. 555-574 [PDF]
Control of DNA replication by anomalous reaction-diffusion kinetics
Michel G. Gauthier and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 158104 (2009) [PDF]
Model-free iterative control of repetitive dynamics for high-speed scanning in atomic force microscopy
Yang Li and John Bechhoefer
Rev. Sci. Instr. 80, 013702 (2009) [PDF]
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2008 |
The Hsk1/Cdc7 replication kinase regulates origin efficiency
Prasanta K. Patel, Naveen Koomajosyula, Adam Rosebrock, Aaron Bensimon, Janet Leatherwood, John Bechhoefer, and Nicholas Rhind
Mol. Biol. Cell 19, 5550-5558 (2008) [PDF] [Supplemental figures]
How Xenopus laevis embryos replicate reliably: investigating the random-completion problem
Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 78, 041917 (2008) [PDF]
Feedforward Control of a Piezoelectric Flexure Stage for AFM
Yang Li and John Bechhoefer
Proc. American Control Conf., Seattle, WA, 2703-2709 (2008) [PDF]
Solidification of viscous melts: the interplay between nanoscale physics and macroscopic behaviour
John Bechhoefer
Int. J. Nanotech. 5, 1121-1137 (2008) [PDF]
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2007 |
Temperature dependence of the capacitance of a ferroelectric material
John Bechhoefer, Yi Deng, Joel Zylberberg, Chao Lei, and Zuo-Guang Ye
Am. J. Phys 75, 1046-1053 (2007) [PDF] [Supplementary Material]
Brownian motion in a modulated optical trap
Yi Deng, John Bechhoefer, and Nancy Forde
J. Opt. A: Pure and Appl. Opt. 9, S256-S263 (2007) [PDF] -- Featured in Europhysics News, Nov./Dec. (2007) [PDF]
Comment on "Direct measurement of the oscillation frequency in an optical trap by parametric modulation"
Yi Deng, Nancy R. Forde, and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 189802 (2007) [PDF]
How Xenopus laevis replicates DNA reliably even though its origins of replication are located and initiated stochastically
John Bechhoefer and Brandon Marshall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098105 (2007) [PDF]
Feedforward control of a closed-loop piezoelectric translation stage for AFM
Yang Li and John Bechhoefer
Rev. Sci. Instr. 78, 013702 (2007) [PDF] |
2006-5 |
Reconstructing DNA replication kinetics from small DNA fragments
Haiyang Zhang and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 73, 051903 (2006) [PDF]
Critical behavior of the banded-unbanded spherulite transition in a mixture of ethylene carbonate with polyacrylonitrile
Bram Sadlik, Laurent Talon, Sébastien Kawka, Russell Woods, and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 71, 061602 (2005) [PDF]
Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control
John Bechhoefer
Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 783-836 (2005) [PDF]
Nucleation and growth in one dimension, part I: The generalized Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami model
Suckjoon Jun, Haiyang Zhang, and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 71, 011908 (2005) [PDF]
Nucleation and growth in one dimension, part II: Application to DNA replication kinetics
Suckjoon Jun and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 71, 011909 (2005) [PDF]
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2004-3 |
Comment on “Insulating behavior of lambda-DNA on the micron scale"
John Bechhoefer and Dipankar Sen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 239801 (2004) [PDF]
Persistence length of chromatin determines origin spacing in Xenopus early-embryo DNA replication: Quantitative comparisons between theory and experiment
Suckjoon Jun, John Herrick, Aaron Bensimon, and John Bechhoefer
Cell Cycle 3, 223-299 (2004) [PDF]
Self-Assembly of the Ionic Peptide EAK16: The Effect of Charge Distributions on Self-Assembly
S. Jun, Y. Hong, H. Imamura, B.-Y. Ha, J. Bechhoefer, and P. Chen
Biophys. J. 87, 1249-1259 (2004) [PDF]
Diffusion-limited loop formation of semiflexible polymers: Kramers theory and the intertwined time scales of chain relaxation and closing
Suckjoon Jun, John Bechhoefer, and Bae-Yeun Ha
Europhys. Lett. 64, 420-426 (2003) [PDF]
Role of Polymer Loops in DNA Replication
Suckjoon Jun and John Bechhoefer
Physics in Canada 59, 85-92 (2003) [PDF]
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2002-0 |
Kinetic model of DNA replication in eukaryotic organisms
John Herrick, Suckjoon Jun, John Bechhoefer, and Aaron Bensimon
J. Mol. Biol. 320, 741-750 (2002) [PDF]
Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory
John Bechhoefer and Scott Wilson
American Journal of Physics 70, 393-400 (2002) [PDF]
Two experimental tests of a fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition: Intensity Fluctuation Microscopy at the Nematic--Smectic-A Transition
Anand Yethiraj, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. E 65, 021702 (16 pp.) (2002) [PDF]
High-resolution study of fluctuation effects at the nematic–smectic-A phase transition
Anand Yethiraj and John Bechhoefer
Liquid Crystals Today 10, No. 3 (4 pp.) (2001) [PDF]
Banded spherulitic growth in a liquid crystal
Jeffrey L. Hutter and John Bechhoefer
J. Cryst. Growth 217, 332-343 (2000) [PDF]
On the properties of large banded spherulites in a maleic-anhydride--polyacrylonitrile mixture
Michael M. Degen, Nicola Costanzino, and John Bechhoefer
J. Cryst. Growth 209, 953-962 (2000) [PDF]
Two experimental tests of the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma effect at the nematic--smectic-A phase transition
Anand Yethiraj and John Bechhoefer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3642-3645 (2000) [PDF] |
Theses
| 2007-6 |
Towards fluorescence microscopy with an STM
Philip Grant, MSc thesis, Simon Fraser University (2007)
Conductivity measurements of single DNA molecules using conductive-atomic force microscopy
Shun Lu, MSc thesis, Simon Fraser University (2006)
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2005-4 |
Reconstructing DNA replication kinetics from small DNA fragments
Haiyang Zhang, MSc thesis, Simon Fraser University (2005) [PDF]
Kinetic model of DNA replication and the looping of semiflexible polymers
Suckjoon Jun, PhD thesis, Simon Fraser University (2004) [PDF]
The role of viscosity in banded spherulitic growth
Bram Sadlik, MSc thesis, Simon Fraser University (2004) [PDF] |
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