Our research explores biological light-harvesting proteins, artificial photosynthesis and lipid membranes. Biochemistry, spectroscopy, nanotech, AFM, FLIM.
University of Leeds, UK
Joined September 2016
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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..." 🧐☀️
doi.org/10.1039/D6NR00297H
Great work Joel Whipp+Kev Critchley @nanoscale_rsc
#light #quantum #fluorescence
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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
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…
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!
funding from @EPSRC @UKRI_News @jsps_sns
many thanks to our institution @UniversityLeeds @physicsleedsuni and #Nagoya Institute of Technology
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
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/10.1101/…
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)
ALT Contact [email protected] and/or [email protected] 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
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…
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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
#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.
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
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.
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
