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Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab

Our research explores biological light-harvesting proteins, artificial photosynthesis and lipid membranes. Biochemistry, spectroscopy, nanotech, AFM, FLIM.

Joined September 2016
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Funded #PhD studentship opportunity on optical spectroscopy and structural techniques to study #photosynthesis and #solar energy capture in purple bacteria!🌞🦠Apply by 7 Jan 2026 @HitchcockLab @BrionyYorke Please share with UG students (Oct 2026 start) tinyurl.com/YB-Adams-2026
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"The impact of carotenoid energy levels on the exciton dynamics and singlet-triplet annihilation in bacterial LH2" - our new preprint inn #bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.05.6… Great work @sagarsden! in collab with @HitchcockLab @gabriela_ssc jakub psencik 😀 #photosynthesis #light
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I'm doing the #BigHike marathon in the peak district to raise money for Cancer Research, with my wife Siobhan, this Saturday 14 June 2025! In memory of Siobhan’s grandma, Stella 🙂 Please #sponsor us by donating money to this charity here- fundraise.cancerresearchuk.o… @CRUKresearch
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"Photocurrent Generation by Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes is Enhanced by Lipid-Linked Chromophores…" - Our new paper is in @JPhysChem now! Great work @Ash__Hancock @MNP_Leeds collab with Dewa group in Nagoya! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c0…

Photocurrent Generation by Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes is Enhanced by Lipid-Linked Chromopho...

The light-harvesting pigment–protein complex II (LHCII) from plants can be used as a component for biohybrid photovoltaic devices, acting as a photosensitizer to increase the photocurrent generated...

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Electricity can be generated by plant Light-Harvesting proteins, acting as a component in "bio-photovoltaic" device. Our study shows that the photocurrent generated can be enhanced by inclusion of synthetic pigments absorbing light at wavelengths where the protein is ineffective!
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funding from @EPSRC @UKRI_News @jsps_sns many thanks to our institution @UniversityLeeds @physicsleedsuni and #Nagoya Institute of Technology
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Check out our new paper: "Evidence for a transfer-to-trap mechanism of fluorophore concentration quenching in lipid bilayers" 😃 🔦⚡️🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2024.0… - published in @BiophysJ @SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre
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I had a great day at the Centre for #Plant Sciences Symposium 2024, yesterday!🌿🌾 Some great talks ranging from the vernalization to root development. I enjoyed speaking as the keynote and discussing with many at @PlantSciLeeds! 😀 @UniversityLeeds @benitez_lab @ThisSunOfYork
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It's was a great week in Padua (Italy) for the 2nd European Congress on #Photosynthesis @2024_ePS2! Excellent talks ranging from biophysics of light harvesting to plant science. Many interesting conversations and new ideas 😀 Thanks particularly to @TMorosinotto &all @PUnipd!
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"Evidence for a transfer-to-trap mechanism of fluorophore concentration quenching in lipid bilayers" - our new preprint is now on #bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Great work @SophDoesScience collab with Morigaki group in Japan 🥳🔬☀️ @MNP_Leeds @sdevans_leeds @darksi25
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Fully-funded #PhD studentship opportunity on advanced electron microscopy & fluorescence to study the #biophysics of #photosynthesis! Apply by 7 Jan 2024. @stemuench me.🧐🔬 Please share with undergrad students interested in biochem/ biophysics/ structural bio (Oct 2024 start)
Contact P.G.Adams@leeds.ac.uk and/or S.P.Muench@leeds.ac.uk for discussions. Apply online by 7 Jan 2024. https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ white-rose-bbsrc-dtp-expression-of-interest-form Expected start date of PhD: 1st Oct 2024

ALT Contact P.G.Adams@leeds.ac.uk and/or S.P.Muench@leeds.ac.uk for discussions. Apply online by 7 Jan 2024. https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ white-rose-bbsrc-dtp-expression-of-interest-form Expected start date of PhD: 1st Oct 2024

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Check out our new paper: "Unravelling the fluorescence kinetics of light-harvesting proteins with simulated measurements" in BBA Bioenergetics @BBAjournals! doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.202… 🧐 Great collab Chris Duffy @QMUL! Thanks to @MNP_Leeds, @physicsleedsuni and @BBSRC for funding!
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It's been a great week at the #Photosynthesis Gordon Research Conference 2023 in Maine. So many excellent talks from light-harvesting to electron/proton flows to evolution! Great to catch up with @CanniffeLab @Johnson_mattp @gabriela_ssc @nikinikki87 @photosyn_Adam @EWientjes1
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"There is no such thing as a dumb question" - in #interdisciplinary #science we must ask each other basic questions because these lead to new ideas. Reflections on Tom McLeish from Mark Leake in a profound moment from the @PhysicsofLifeUK conference 🙂 @BPSIYork @MNP_Leeds
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#Snow in Leeds this morning 🙂 Here I am, on the way in to the Bragg Building @physicsleedsuni, where our research and teaching goes on whatever the weather!!! ❄️🌿🌞 @MNP_Leeds
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📢Call for abstracts: Interested in presenting your research at the Physics of Emergent Behaviour event in Harrogate from 30 - 31 March 2023. Submit an abstract online at iop.eventsair.com/peb2023/ before 6 March 2023.
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Our new paper: Exploring the self-quenching of a fluorescent probe using a novel combination of “in-membrane electrophoresis” & fluorescence lifetime imaging! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c0… - published in the Steven Boxer special issue of @JPhysChem! 😀 @SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre

Self-Quenching Behavior of a Fluorescent Probe Incorporated within Lipid Membranes Explored Using...

Fluorescent probes are useful in biophysics research to assess the spatial distribution, mobility, and interactions of biomolecules. However, fluorophores can undergo “self-quenching” of their...

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Thanks to all in @MNP_Leeds @physicsleedsuni @UniversityLeeds for making it a great place to do science and @EPSRC and @BBSRC for funding! 🥳🤩🧐 Great collab with @sdevans_leeds and Simon Connell in Leeds and Kenichi Morigaki in Kobe, Japan.
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PhD opportunities available! Please RT. Projects involve biochemistry and biophysics of photosynthesis using either high-res. microscopy, spectroscopy &/or simulations - findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords=… Funding available via scholarships. Join @MNP_Leeds & @AstburyCentre @UniversityLeeds
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Today, I was on strike as part of @leedsucu, as part of the biggest ever university #strike to hit the UK with over 70,000 university staff at 150 universities! ucu.org.uk/article/12609/Big… Very sad that the university is not negotiating seriously about important issues! 😐
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