Information

Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2017

Volume

73

Number

2

Theme

Nanoscale Approaches to Biological Systems

Guest Editors

	John Dutcher - University of Guelph
	Nancy Forde - Simon Fraser University
	Sabrina Leslie - McGill University

Cover description

Schematic of synthetic “Lawnmower” molecular motors, cutting fluorogenic peptide lawns coupled to light-guiding nanowires. Background shows fluorescent side image of a nanowire array. Images courtesy Damiano Verdaro and Heiner Linke, Lund University, Sweden. See article by Chapin Korosec and Nancy Forde on engineering biological molecular motors in this issue.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Foreword

• Nanophysical Approaches To Biological Systems
  • John Dutcher, Nancy Forde, Sabrina Leslie

Feature Articles

• Toward The Design Principles Of Molecular Machines
  • Aidan I. Brown, David A. Sivak

• Nanomechanics Of Protein Filaments
  • Samuel J. Baldwin, Andrew S. Quigley, Laurent Kreplak

• Biological Confinement Physics: Squeezing New Information Out Of Complex Macromolecules
  • Sabrina R. Leslie, Albert Kamanzi, Daniel Berard, Marjan Shayegan, Gilead Henkin, Jason Leith, Shane Scott, Francis Stabile

• Engineering Nanoscale Biological Molecular Motors
  • Chapin S. Korosec, Nancy R. Forde

• Resolving Biology Beyond The Diffraction Limit With Single-molecule Localization Microscopy
  • Nafiseh Rafiei, Daniel Nino, Joshua N. Milstein

• Watching Single Biological Molecules Fold Using Laser Tweezers
  • Michael T. Woodside

• Phytoglycogen Nanoparticles: Exciting Science And Promising Technologies From Nature
  • John Dutcher, Michael Grossutti, John Atkinson, Benjamin Baylis, Hurmiz Shamana, Eric Bergmann, Jonathan Nickels, John Katsaras

• Canada: An Outstanding Environment For Academic Technology Entrepreneurs
  • Andre Marziali

• Nanopores: Electronic Tools For Singlemolecule Biophysics And Bio-nanotechnologies
  • Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Kyle Briggs, Autumn Carlsen, Martin Charron, Philipp Karau, Zachary Roelen, Matthew Waugh

• Neutrinos: Probes To The Inner Workings Of Our Existence
  • Patrick de Perio

Conference Reports

• Canadian Conference For Undergraduate Women In Physics (Ccuwip)
  • Brigitte Vachon

Education Articles

• Gaining Practical Experience with Physics-based Approaches to the Micro- and Nanoscale World Of Biology
  • Nancy R. Forde,

Opinion

• The War On Facts
  • Richard Mackenzie

In Memoriam

• Melvin A. Preston Cd, Frsc (1921 - 2016)
  • Donald Sprung