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Professor

R. David Britt

University of California, Davis
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Chemistry
Elected
2023

R. David Britt is the Winston Ko Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. 

The Britt lab is investigating structure and function of biologically significant enzymes with redox-active transition metal centers, clusters or organic radicals in their active site. The oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II, the enzyme complex responsible for water oxidation in photosynthesis, is the major biological system currently under investigation. The primary research tool is advanced electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. 

Britt's lab operates the CalEPR center, home to six continuous-wave and pulse EPR instruments ranging in frequency from 9 to 130 GHz. CalEPR is the largest center of its kind on the West coast.

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