Stephen Lucore
Graduate Research Assistant
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Lucore is a graduate research scientist specializing in free energy methods for proteins and small molecules, with 11 years of hands-on experience applying polarizable potentials to challenging biomolecular problems. His PhD work at the University of Iowa produced novel, implemented algorithms for global side-chain optimization, calibrated implicit solvent radii to match explicit-water solvation energies, and yielded improved predictions for protein–ligand binding across dozens of barnase–barstar variants. He has exhaustively characterized three-body interactions across all amino acid triplets in canonical secondary structures to derive practical design rules for polarizable computational protein design. Stephen also developed a new algorithm for protein pKa estimation and brings prior industry exposure from a cheminformatics internship at Genentech. Based in Iowa City, he combines deep theoretical derivations with production-capable implementations, bridging rigorous computational biophysics and applied protein engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Pharmacy, Pharmacy at Ohio Northern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of Iowa
Github Skills (5)
biophysics9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
thermodynamics9
molecular-simulation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
mjschnie/ffx
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Force Field X - Software for Molecular Biophysics
Contributions:193 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 5 months
molecularthermodynamicsbioinformaticsfieldforce-field
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