Peter Adams

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

"The impact of carotenoid energy levels on the exciton dynamics and singlet-triplet annihilation in bacterial LH2" - our new preprint inn #bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Great work @sagarsden! in collab with @HitchcockLab @gabriela_ssc jakub psencik 😀 #photosynthesis #light

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.org/team/siobhan-a… @CRUKresearch

funding from @EPSRC @UKRI_News @jsps_sns many thanks to our institution @UniversityLeeds @physicsleedsuni and #Nagoya Institute of Technology

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!

"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.jp…

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.… - published in @BiophysJ @SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre

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

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!

"Evidence for a transfer-to-trap mechanism of fluorophore concentration quenching in lipid bilayers" - our new preprint is now on #bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Great work @SophDoesScience + collab with Morigaki group in Japan 🥳🔬☀️ @MNP_Leeds @sdevans_leeds @darksi25

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)

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.bbab… 🧐 Great collab +Chris Duffy @QMUL! Thanks to @MNP_Leeds, @physicsleedsuni and @BBSRC for funding!

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

"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

@PhysicsofLifeUK meeting day 1! Great Early Career Researcher event this morning! Topics included: lipids, actin, RNA, GFP, DNA-PAINT, ciliates, TMAO, tension, gene expression, phenotyping, plant roots, pores, pL spectroscopy. @MNP_Leeds @iop_conferences iop.eventsair.com/physics-of-lif…

Look what we have here! We gathered in Harrogate to talk about physics of life. @AdamsBiophysLab is chairing the Early Career Researcher event. Looking forward for four days of science. @PhysicsofLifeUK

#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

📢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.

@JPhysChem @SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre 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.

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.jp… - published in the Steven Boxer special issue of @JPhysChem! 😀 @SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre