User:Steven J. Koch

Steve Koch, Experimental Biophysicist

This user is a DNA unzipper

307L

Member of Physics 307L

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

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

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