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Hi from New Mexico!

My name is Anthony and I am one of the first grad student members of the KochLab. I will come with news of all sorts for everyone to read. I will describe what it is like to be a graduate student and...

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Early Days of Grad School

I have been in the lab for about 1.5 years and a graduate student for 2.5 years. Seems like a long time for me (maybe not so much for some grad students), and even though I am where I am now... it...

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Draft of our first paper: Shotgun DNA Mapping!

Today, Larry, Anthony, Linh, and I hunkered down and created a draft of our first paper that will come out of our lab. We had been really struggling to write this paper collaboratively in bits and...

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Build your own laser diode control system

Andy hasn't started blogging yet, so I wanted to put up a quick note. Andy designed and built a laser diode system using OEM parts from Thor Labs and elsewhere. Anthony and Larry helped him assemble...

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Open Science

I guess I'm officially the guinea pig of the KochLab (I don't know why Koch puts a space there... it's not like it's his lab or anything). Well Koch is the real pioneer because he is the one who...

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My First Grant Application

This is for a small student grant. The award is $3500 or so and I wrote on some cancer related research in the field of telomeres. You can find my application (written back in October) on...

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Our (open) contributions to science the past week

I want to make a short post to point out the contributions to science members of my lab made last week. Our activities have really been ramping up, so I don't think we can keep up these kinds of...

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My First Bio Lab Experience

I feel like a boy on his first date. As the whirlwind of stuff that I must learn in the coming months is quickly explained to me I wonder to myself, "This is a nice place. I can envision a continuing...

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Some Science-y Images

I haven't really had much time lately for fun extraneous stuff (like blogging), but I figured I have some time before I go to Boston so I might as well show something.Larry is presenting at Biophysical...

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Overview of the Biophysical Society Meeting: Boston, 2009

This is my second science conference ever with my first coming last year at the same meeting but in Long Beach, California (LBC). Last year was immensely fun both conference wise and extracurricularly....

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The Fear of Scooping

All my hopes and dreams... gone in a flash. I wanted to be the first or at least be able to establish my thesis based on this line of work. Instead that hope has been reduced to nothing. What can I do...

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What's cooking and what's been koching?

I have two goals with this post: (a) to answer a question "why don't we have unzipping data yet" and (b) to explain some interesting simulation data we having related to an alternative splicing...

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Designs of Sorts

I have been into graphic design for 2 years now and I am getting quite good (if I do say so myself). I started because nobody in the lab (out of Koch, Larry, and I) had any experience and I had wanted...

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Lab Recap: Anthony's Work

I haven't updated people in a very long while as to what I have been doing in the KochLab. Technically I haven't been doing anything in there at all. From January to June I have been working with a...

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Going Door to Door for Science

In one of my most recent (and frequent) brainstorms, I came up with a really great idea. Koch and I were hiking on the La Luz Trail:View La Luz Trail to North Tramway Trail in a larger mapAt some point...

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Andy's microtubule gliding speed data for heavy-hydrogen and heavy-oxygen water

It has been a very long time since I updated our research blog.  I have left out many, many important updates, including all of Larry's results, that led to his recent graduation as our lab's first to...

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