User:Steven J. Koch

Steve Koch, Experimental Biophysicist

Userboxes User of optical tweezers This user is a DNA unzipper This user does Kinesin research Member of KochLab 307L Member of Physics 307L Member of U. New Mexico

My Blogs science, research, and teaching. Plus our lab blog.

Steve Koch
Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Center for High Technology Materials

Biosketch

Ann Arbor, Michigan	Childhood	1974- 1992	Science, Video Games, Commodore 64, Michigan Wolverines, Detroit Tigers, Playing Baseball, Science Olympiad
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	B.S.	1992- 1996	Physics, Marching Band
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY	M.S Ph.D.	2000 2003	Physics / Biophysics
Sandia National Laboratories and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Albuquerque, NM	Postdoctoral fellow	2003- 2006	Biophysics and Nanotechnology
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM	Assistant Professor	2006- present	Molecular Biophysics

Links to OpenWetWare pages

Our research lab wiki

My public lab notebook

Junior Physics lab course on OWW

Research Interests

• Development of biophysical tools, particularly single-molecule manipulation techniques
• Optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, MEMS and nanophotonics devices
• Kinesin
• Protein-DNA interactions, cellular molecular biophysics
• Eukaryotic transcription, DNA damage repair

Contact info

sjkoch@unm.edu
Steven J. Koch
Center for High Technology Materials
1313 Goddard SE, MSC04-2710
Albuquerque, NM 87106

Reading suggestions

My reading suggestions on Amazon.

Scratch pad

Special:Contributions/Anthony Salvagno
Special:Contributions/Cmorse
Special:Contributions/Andy Maloney
Recent Kochlab activity
Physics 102
/307L ideas
/Turkeys from Treviso
/Test notebook template
/Test notebook
Physics 500 Optical Tweezers Talk
Wiki ideas
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