User:Andy Maloney

About me

Userboxes User of optical tweezers This user does Kinesin research Member of KochLab

I am a member of the Koch lab at the University of New Mexico in the Physics & Astronomy department. Below you will find links to my public lab notebook and in the future, links to chapters in my thesis. I will also provide links to the small write ups I've done on building a laser tweezers complete with a laser diode system I put together from stock parts.

Projects

Below is a list of projects that I have, or I am actively working on. Each link will ultimately take you to a page where I point out the important characteristics, motivation, and the science being done with each project.

As this is an entirely new endeavor on my part, organization will be somewhat chaotic at first. Most notably my notebook. I will try to link my notebook entries to the below pages and I am currently in the process of doing so. As my knowledge of how to work wikis increase, this page will undoubtedly get better. Until then, please forgive my dust.

Notebook		This is my scientific notebook. This is where I write down any data that I collect, reviews to some papers I have read, and most of all my musings. I will attempt to link all my notebook entries to pages in the below projects. My notebook is somewhat chaotic so if you are looking for something specific, your best bet is to just do a search.
Tobacco seeds		This page is about reproducing and extending the classic experiment by Gilbert Lewis with deuterium oxide and tobacco seeds.
Laser diode build		This is a link to an Instructable I made outlining how to build an OEM laser diode system.
Fluorescence Schlieren Microscope		This is a dead project that combines Schlieren imaging with fluorescent imaging. The goal was to look at membrane dynamics in an ultrasonic field.
Optical tweezers		This is an ongoing project where I built my first optical tweezers. It has now past through my hands and into the hands of other students. But, I can't help but feel pleasantly attached to the project.
Kinesin & Microtubule Page		This is a very poorly designed page that needs a lot of work. Ultimately I want it to be the page where I have all my recipes and procedures related to working with kinesin and microtubules.
Osmotic stress effects on kinesin and microtubules		This is work showing how kinesin and microtubules are affected by osmotic stressors.
Surface passivation effects on kinesin and microtubules		This page looks at how (if any) gliding speeds are affected by different surface passivations.
Temperature effects on kinesin velocity		There are a great number of things that can affect how kinesin and microtubules interact with one another. Temperature is one of them.
Engineering		This showcases any pages in my notebook where I talk about engineering hurdles that slow down science. It also houses my notebook entries where I talk about any open science things I find interesting and any new technologies that can be used for open science.
DNA		There's not much here. Just some musings about DNA unzipping and optical tweezers.

Notebook entries for papers

Surface passivation study

The entries in this page are listings of my notebook that are related to the surface passivation study using various bovine caseins. The goal of this page is to be able to create a URL that is used as a reference for the paper about this study.