Peter Adams

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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

Check out our new paper published in #Nanoscale journal: "Analysis of lipid-assisted self-assembly of hydrophobic CIS/ZnS quantum dots into water-stable nanoclusters..." 🧐☀️
https://t.co/pXT7peQTwT
Great work Joel Whipp+Kev Critchley @nanoscale_rsc
#light #quantum #fluorescence

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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)
https://t.co/jICHhGYveY

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

"The impact of carotenoid energy levels on the exciton dynamics and singlet-triplet annihilation in bacterial LH2" - our new preprint inn #bioRxiv! https://t.co/q6l921takj
Great work @sagarsden! in collab with @HitchcockLab @gabriela_ssc jakub psencik 😀
#photosynthesis #light

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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- https://t.co/jJoPD8M3xX
@CRUKresearch

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

"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!
https://t.co/4BRrWXm3Vo

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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!

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

Check out our new paper: "Evidence for a transfer-to-trap mechanism of fluorophore concentration quenching in lipid bilayers" 😃 🔦⚡️🔬
https://t.co/m71NqlxGYw - published in @BiophysJ
@SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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!

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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)

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

Check out our new paper: "Unravelling the fluorescence kinetics of light-harvesting proteins with simulated measurements" in BBA Bioenergetics @BBAjournals!
https://t.co/fN3rMjl5Ix
🧐
Great collab +Chris Duffy @QMUL! Thanks to @MNP_Leeds, @physicsleedsuni and @BBSRC for funding!

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

"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

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

@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
https://t.co/LTyK1NwKA6

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

#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

[Claire Garland @iop_conferences]

📢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 https://t.co/XnwkzFVACp before 6 March 2023.

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

@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.

[Peter Adams @AdamsBiophysLab]

Our new paper: Exploring the self-quenching of a fluorescent probe using a novel combination of “in-membrane electrophoresis” & fluorescence lifetime imaging!
https://t.co/uYwFPZck8R - published in the Steven Boxer special issue of @JPhysChem! 😀
@SophDoesScience @AstburyCentre