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John Bechhoefer
Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Publications - 139
Citations - 8411
John Bechhoefer is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: DNA replication & Liquid crystal. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 133 publications receiving 7487 citations. Previous affiliations of John Bechhoefer include University of Chicago & University of British Columbia.
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Morphology transitions in diffusion- and kinetics-limited solidification of a liquid crystal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the isothermal crystallization of the liquid crystal 10 OCB from its smectic-$A$ phase and identified three types of morphology transitions: strongly first order, where the front velocity is discontinuous; weakly first order where the velocity curve, but not its derivative, is continuous (and the morphology changes discontinuously).
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Modeling inhomogeneous DNA replication kinetics.
TL;DR: This work generalizes previous approaches to modeling replication, to allow for arbitrary spatial variation of initiation rates and fork velocities, and shows that reliable inferences can be made about the replication of specific portions of the genome even if the amount of data that can be obtained from single-molecule experiments is generally limited.
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Influence of anisotropic elasticity on pattern formation in a cholesteric liquid crystal contained between two plates.
TL;DR: Etude de la transition entre etats torsades and non torsade d'un cristal liquide cholesterique entre de two plaques, avec ancrage homeotrope, par un calcul variationnel.
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Defects and DNA Replication
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a rate-equation formalism to study DNA replication kinetics in the presence of DNA damage and find a crossover between two regimes: a normal regime, where the influence of defects is local, and an initiation-limited regime, whose progress is set by the rate at which origins of replication are activated, or initiated.
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Testing shape selection in directional solidification.
John Bechhoefer,Albert Libchaber +1 more
TL;DR: A new, metastable dendritic form is observed that can be interpreted in the light of recent ideas about pattern formation on the directional solidification of pivalic acid.