POSTDOC
Princeton University
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program

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Dr. Luke Bradley
began his research career as an undergraduate at Ohio University where he worked on various organic chemistry projects with Dr. Mark McMills. In the summer of his sophomore year, Luke was awarded an Ohio Academic Challenge Grant, which allowed him to work in the medicinal chemistry lab of Dr. Duane Miller at Ohio State University constructing derivatives of the asthma drug trimetoquinol. After graduating with his B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Luke then worked in industry before starting his graduate work at Ohio State. His research, under the guidance of Dr. Richard Swenson, investigated the role of a highly conserved protein-cofactor interaction in the flavoprotein family of proteins. After receiving his Ph.D. in Summer 2001, he began his postdoctoral studies in protein design with Dr. Michael Hecht at Princeton. Luke’s current research interests include (1) the design and creation of large combinatorial libraries of de novo proteins and (2) the isolation of proteins from such libraries (by various screens and selections) with novel functions.

As a graduate student, Luke was involved with the teaching a several graduate and undergraduate courses in biology and biochemistry. In addition to teaching, he had the opportunity to help develop new labs and serve as an administrative teaching assistant for a large introductory biology course. At Princeton, Luke is working with Dr. Hecht in CHM 201 (Introductory Chemistry). His responsibilities include teaching precept, lecture, reviews, course development and other administrative tasks. Luke enjoys interacting with students and trying to relate class material to real-life applications. He also enjoys spending time with his family and is often seen on campus with his daughter Emme.