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Frederica Theodoulou
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Plant scientist, interested in proteostasis, hypoxia, and baking.
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Lemon curd cupcakes (and the last rose from my garden this year) for this morning's bake sale. All in aid of suicide prevention charity theolliefoundation.org a very worthwhile cause.
A glass platter with 14 cupcakes and a pink rose alongside
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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A Fairer Feast- How can technological breakthroughs work for everyone? Looking forward to this ARIA event at Venture Café London next week to celebrate #WorldFoodDay. venturecafelondon.org
Flier for an ARIA event showing photos of four panel members: Fabrizio Ticchiarelli-Marjot, Freddie Theodoulou, Rene Geurts and Sonja Billerbeck.
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Had my head in proteomics data spreadsheets all day but pleased to have whipped up this offering tonight ☺️🍰
A (half-eaten), still- buoyant Victoria sponge on a glass cake stand.
October 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It's been far too long since my last baking post, so I wanted to announce a recent acquisition: a cake dome which I am launching with a grown up but still childish slab of cake. Dark chocolate icing with sprinkles tasted better than it looks!
A slightly wonky square cake, covered in chocolate icing, with far too many sugar sprinkles, topped with a glass dome.
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Stunning double rainbow @rothamsted.bsky.social this evening 🌈
A double rainbow (almost complete arc) with a green lawn in the foreground
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Left myself a message for tomorrow morning
A piece of paper with the message: "STOP FAFFING AROUND AND START WRITING A GRANT"
August 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Exited to be in Liverpool for my first ever British Society for Proteome research meeting #BSPR2025
July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Yes...e.g. SLEEPYHEAD is more fun than SUPERNUMERARY BRACT, but if it turns out there is a human homologue with a disease-causing variant, it can make for difficult doctor-patient conversations.
Screenshot of the Feb 2012 Editorial of The Biochemist, entitled "What's in a name?"
February 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Not even @plantophagy.bsky.social can post whilst introducing a session, so here he is at #PlantProteostasis2025 with the warning, "This is your last chance to understand #Autophagy"!
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And so it begins.... Plant Proteostasis GRC in Tuscany- looking forward to a great week of science with friends old and new 🌿
Shot from the back of a large lecture theatre, showing an introductory slide
January 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Happy to start 2025 by sharing our new preprint biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... -the first paper from our BBSRC collaborative project with
@richardmott.bsky.social and Kathryn Lilley to understand what controls protein abundance in plants. 🧵 1/9
Genomic information pathways and their numerical linkages in relation to the Central Dogma. The boxes show different omic levels in Col-0 and Can-0. Black arrows indicate the flow of information implied by the Central Dogma starting from CDS (peach) via gbM (green) to mRNA (light blue), ribosome-associated mRNA (yellow) and finally protein (pink). The strength of Pearson correlation between levels is shown both by the numbers and by the thickness of the corresponding black arrows, and represents the correlation between quantitative expression levels (except in the case of CDS where is represents the correlation derived from the multiple regression codon frequency model, i.e. the square root of the fraction of variance explained). The merged arrows connecting CDS, gbM and mRNA to protein show the result of combining information into a single model; note that their combined correlation of 0.720 is less than the sum of their individual effects. The correlation of tRNA levels (lilac) with genome-wide codon and amino acid frequencies is shown on the left. The correlations between corresponding Col-0 and Can-0 omic levels are shown next to the grey double-headed arrows.
January 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A dusting of icing sugar worked wonders....
A selection of festive cakes and chocolates on a table
December 19, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Emboldened by my success with new festive cake moulds, I decided to make some chocolate 🎄 cakes for Departmental coffee. In retrospect, this may have been a mistake 💩
Christmas tree-shaped chocolate cakes on a wire rack. Not entirely appetising looking....
December 19, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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First of the festive bakes for today's PI meeting 🎄
A festive plate with six sugar-dusted, Xmas tree-shaped cakes and a big tin of Lindor chocs.
December 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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An early Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays from our lab to yours! May you get clean negative controls and Referee 3 be kind ❤️🎄🤶🏻🎅🏻🥂
Five jolly scientists sitting around a table, wearing Christmas cracker hats
December 6, 2024 at 4:49 PM