R. David Britt
@rdavbritt.bsky.social
Chemistry Professor, UC Davis
It so tough these days to get undergrads to milk the rattlers...at least in the UC!
I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It so tough these days to get undergrads to milk the rattlers...at least in the UC!
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I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
yeah, it wasn't me, it was the "professionals" who destroyed it! quite a story for sometimes
Thankfully I knew it had handled instruments with similar mass so I wasn’t too worried 😅
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
yeah, it wasn't me, it was the "professionals" who destroyed it! quite a story for sometimes
the destroyed magnet rested in the UCB Chemistry machine shop for some time....
I unfortunately have seen this go very badly....
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the destroyed magnet rested in the UCB Chemistry machine shop for some time....
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I unfortunately have seen this go very badly....
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I unfortunately have seen this go very badly....
I unfortunately have seen this go very badly....
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I unfortunately have seen this go very badly....
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Postdoc position in protein NMR, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, iNANO, Aarhus University, the Viennet lab invites you to apply for a 3-year postdoc position funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation international.au.dk/about/profil... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲
Postdoc position in protein NMR - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center - INANO-Kemi, iNANO-huset, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Postdoc position in protein NMR, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, iNANO, Aarhus University, the Viennet lab invites you to apply for a 3-year postdoc position funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation international.au.dk/about/profil... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲
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I am very excited to share our new preprint - "A Zundel Ion in the Catalytic Proton Transfer Pathway of [FeFe]-Hydrogenase" - for which we revisited an older theory of ours, and came to surprising conclusions... 🧵
doi.org/10.26434/che...
doi.org/10.26434/che...
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am very excited to share our new preprint - "A Zundel Ion in the Catalytic Proton Transfer Pathway of [FeFe]-Hydrogenase" - for which we revisited an older theory of ours, and came to surprising conclusions... 🧵
doi.org/10.26434/che...
doi.org/10.26434/che...
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Vincent, Morra, and Rodríguez-Maciá demonstrate that truncating the electron transfer domain of [FeFe]-hydrogenase does *not* diminish their catalytic efficiency (via ACS Catalysis).
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
Engineering the Electron Relay in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Enhances Electrocatalytic H2 Evolution
H2 is an ideal energy vector, but catalysts for its clean production from water are inefficient or expensive. [FeFe]-hydrogenases are the most active H2-converting catalysts in nature, using a unique ...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Vincent, Morra, and Rodríguez-Maciá demonstrate that truncating the electron transfer domain of [FeFe]-hydrogenase does *not* diminish their catalytic efficiency (via ACS Catalysis).
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
Fall S. leucophylla pitchers...
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Fall S. leucophylla pitchers...
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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics for experiments that revealed quantum behavior in electrical circuits, showing that even systems made of billions of atoms can obey the strange laws of the quantum world: cen.acs.org/people/nobel... 🧪
October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics for experiments that revealed quantum behavior in electrical circuits, showing that even systems made of billions of atoms can obey the strange laws of the quantum world: cen.acs.org/people/nobel... 🧪
Paul McCartney, Oct 4 2025
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Paul McCartney, Oct 4 2025
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ACS Electrochemistry (open) Coupled Benchtop NMR and EPR of Viologen Radicals in a Redox Flow Battery, Giu A. Silva Testa, Mathijs A. Damhuis, Tom Speelman, Kim Baas, Johannes A.A.W. Elemans*, Evan Wenbo Zhao* pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR #BenchtopNMR #Battchat 🧲
Coupled Benchtop NMR and EPR Spectroscopy Reveals the Electronic Structure of Viologen Radicals in a Redox Flow Battery
Viologens are a class of organic molecules with promising properties for redox flow battery applications. However, their molecular-level mechanisms remain challenging to fully probe and understand. In...
pubs.acs.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
ACS Electrochemistry (open) Coupled Benchtop NMR and EPR of Viologen Radicals in a Redox Flow Battery, Giu A. Silva Testa, Mathijs A. Damhuis, Tom Speelman, Kim Baas, Johannes A.A.W. Elemans*, Evan Wenbo Zhao* pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR #BenchtopNMR #Battchat 🧲
OMG, thanks for catching! (It's only good for one pulse experiments???)
September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OMG, thanks for catching! (It's only good for one pulse experiments???)
A paper describing the performance of our new TWT powered 263 GHz pulse EPR spectrometer is now available as a preprint
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Very high frequency (263 GHz) pulse EPR spectroscopy of high spin transition metal centers
Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy provides powerful tools for examining species with unpaired electrons, such as organic radicals and metal ions,
in a wide variety of interest...
www.researchsquare.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A paper describing the performance of our new TWT powered 263 GHz pulse EPR spectrometer is now available as a preprint
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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We celebrated Fede's PhD defense yesterday 🎉
Together we've been working on cytochrome c oxidase for the last 6-7 years.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dr. Baserga is looking for a job in tech now www.linkedin.com/in/federico-...
Together we've been working on cytochrome c oxidase for the last 6-7 years.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dr. Baserga is looking for a job in tech now www.linkedin.com/in/federico-...
September 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We celebrated Fede's PhD defense yesterday 🎉
Together we've been working on cytochrome c oxidase for the last 6-7 years.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dr. Baserga is looking for a job in tech now www.linkedin.com/in/federico-...
Together we've been working on cytochrome c oxidase for the last 6-7 years.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dr. Baserga is looking for a job in tech now www.linkedin.com/in/federico-...
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Postdoctoral research position in Rob Tycko's group in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK #NIH Bethesda, Maryland, development and application of time-resolved solid-state NMR, email your CV incl education & research accomplishments to www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/... #NMRjobs 🧲
Robert Tycko, Ph.D., NIH Distinguished Investigator - NIDDK
www.niddk.nih.gov
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Postdoctoral research position in Rob Tycko's group in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK #NIH Bethesda, Maryland, development and application of time-resolved solid-state NMR, email your CV incl education & research accomplishments to www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/... #NMRjobs 🧲
I had to run over in the middle and flip it!
CD??? We had a 78 rpm vinyl fill track!
My grad school lab had a special helium fill soundtrack, which was burned on a CD because that's how long ago it was. We never listened to it at other times, only when doing the fills. It contained the cheesiest songs we could think of, and everyone would sing along at top volume.
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I had to run over in the middle and flip it!
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Our article "H2-producing catalysts based on ferredoxin scaffolds" is online with full citation details now!
doi.org/10.1002/advs...
doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Hydrogen‐Producing Catalysts Based on Ferredoxin Scaffolds
Selected plant-type ferredoxins that lack their natural [2Fe-2S] clusters functionally bind a hydrogenase active site cofactor and act as hydrogenases themselves. In combination with photosystem I, t...
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our article "H2-producing catalysts based on ferredoxin scaffolds" is online with full citation details now!
doi.org/10.1002/advs...
doi.org/10.1002/advs...
CD??? We had a 78 rpm vinyl fill track!
My grad school lab had a special helium fill soundtrack, which was burned on a CD because that's how long ago it was. We never listened to it at other times, only when doing the fills. It contained the cheesiest songs we could think of, and everyone would sing along at top volume.
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
CD??? We had a 78 rpm vinyl fill track!
ok, first attempt at a Lotus in Point Richmond seems to be going fine
September 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
ok, first attempt at a Lotus in Point Richmond seems to be going fine
is the dimer core of the H-cluster of FeFe hydrogenase formed by rSAM chemistry in HydE?
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
The Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Enzyme HydE Forms an Fe(I)Fe(I) Dimer En Route to the [FeFe] Hydrogenase H-Cluster
[FeFe] hydrogenases are highly efficient metalloenzymes that catalyze hydrogen conversion via a sophisticated active site cofactor known as the H-cluster. Biosynthesis of its [2Fe]H subcluster, which ...
pubs.acs.org
August 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
is the dimer core of the H-cluster of FeFe hydrogenase formed by rSAM chemistry in HydE?
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
a company (I will not name here) decided to throw away money by setting up a solar array AND Tesla Powerwall at the house, charge us a flat rate for the next 25 years, and it starts for less that we were paying for PG&E power before. Yes solar is just a fantasy power source.
August 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
a company (I will not name here) decided to throw away money by setting up a solar array AND Tesla Powerwall at the house, charge us a flat rate for the next 25 years, and it starts for less that we were paying for PG&E power before. Yes solar is just a fantasy power source.