Biography
Luke earned a BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario (2015) and completed summer research projects in the lab of Prof. Gordon Keller (Toronto, Canada). Subsequently, he completed a Wellcome Trust funded DPhil in Chromosome and Developmental Biology as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford (2020) in the lab of Prof. Elizabeth J Robertson. After a short post-doc in the Robertson group, Luke was awarded a Vertex Fellowship (2021) to join Vertex Pharmaceuticals and complete a one-year research fellowship in drug discovery and human disease modelling. In 2022, Luke joined the Göttgens lab as a post-doctoral research associate and received a five-year Wellcome Early Career Award (2023-2028). His research focuses on the role that developmental history plays in settings of molecular convergence, such as blood cell formation in the early mammalian embryo.
Publications
Harland, L. T. G., Simon, C. S., Senft, A. D., Costello, I., Greder, L., Imaz-Rosshandler, I., Gottgens, B., Marioni, J. C., Bikoff, E. K., Porcher, C., de Bruijn, M., & Robertson, E. J. (2021). The T-box transcription factor Eomesodermin governs haemogenic competence of yolk sac mesodermal progenitors. Nat Cell Biol, 23(1), 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-020-00611-8
Other Professional Activities
Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA), Trinity Hall, Cambridge
