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  • 2010 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Delmar S. Larsen is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to neuroscience as well. Subfields of study include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, plant science, physical and theoretical chemistry, and computational theory and mathematics.

The main topics of Larsen's work encompass photoreceptor and optogenetics research, light effects on plants, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, genetics, bioinformatics, biomedical research, various chemistry research topics, computational drug discovery methods, and retinal development and disorders.

Larsen's recent publications reflect these interests and include the following:

  • Teaching Cheminformatics through a Collaborative Intercollegiate Online Chemistry Course (OLCC), 2020, Journal of Chemical Education
  • Comparison of the Forward and Reverse Photocycle Dynamics of Two Highly Similar Canonical Red/Green Cyanobacteriochromes Reveals Unexpected Differences, 2021, Biochemistry
  • Computational and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Photocycle of an Artificial Rhodopsin, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Not All Photoactive Yellow Proteins Are Built Alike: Surprises and Insights into Chromophore Photoisomerization, Protonation, and Thermal Reisomerization of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Isolated from Salinibacter ruber, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Fundamentals of Biochemistry, a free and new LibreText book for Undergraduate Courses, 2022, The FASEB Journal

Larsen has published notably in the following scientific venues:

  • Biochemistry
  • Journal of Chemical Education
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The FASEB Journal

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Adam J. Jenkins
  • Che-Wei Chang
  • Shelley S. Martin
  • J. Clark Lagarias
  • Sunghwan Kim

Delmar S. Larsen received the Hellman Fellow award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Global and target analysis of time-resolved spectra

    Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Delmar S. Larsen;Rienk van Grondelle

  • Two-Dimensional Raman Spectroscopy of Vibrational Interactions in Liquids

    A. Tokmakoff;M. J. Lang;D. S. Larsen;G. R. Fleming

  • Evolution of Physical and Photocatalytic Properties in the Layered Titanates A2Ti4O9 (A = K, H) and in Nanosheets Derived by Chemical Exfoliation†

    Mark R. Allen;Arthur Thibert;Erwin M. Sabio;Nigel D. Browning

  • Excited state dynamics of β-carotene explored with dispersed multi-pulse transient absorption

    Delmar S. Larsen;Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris

  • Uncovering the hidden ground state of green fluorescent protein

    John T. M. Kennis;Delmar S. Larsen;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris

  • Calcium Niobate Semiconductor Nanosheets as Catalysts for Photochemical Hydrogen Evolution from Water

    Owen C. Compton;Elizabeth C. Carroll;Jin Y. Kim;Delmar S. Larsen

  • Incoherent Manipulation of the Photoactive Yellow Protein Photocycle with Dispersed Pump-Dump-Probe Spectroscopy

    Delmar S. Larsen;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris;Michael A. van der Horst

  • Initial steps of signal generation in photoactive yellow protein revealed with femtosecond mid-infrared spectroscopy.

    Marie Louise Groot;Luuk J. G. W. Van Wilderen;Delmar S. Larsen;Michael A. Van Der Horst

  • Photoisomerization and photoionization of the photoactive yellow protein chromophore in solution

    Delmar S. Larsen;Mikas Vengris;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Michael A. van der Horst

  • Ultrafast Protein Dynamics of Bacteriorhodopsin Probed by Photon Echo and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

    John T. M. Kennis;Delmar S. Larsen;Kaoru Ohta;Marc T. Facciotti

  • K4Nb6O17-derived photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution from water: Nanoscrolls versus nanosheets

    Michael C. Sarahan;Elizabeth C. Carroll;Mark Allen;Delmar S. Larsen

  • First demonstration of CdSe as a photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution from water under UV and visible light.

    F. Andrew Frame;Elizabeth C. Carroll;Delmar S. Larsen;Michael Sarahan

  • Sequestering High-Energy Electrons to Facilitate Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation in CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals

    Arthur Thibert;F. Andrew Frame;Erik Busby;Michael A. Holmes

  • Use of ultrafast dispersed pump-dump-probe and pump-repump-probe spectroscopies to explore the light-induced dynamics of peridinin in solution.

    Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Mikas Vengris;Delmar S Larsen;Ivo H M van Stokkum

  • Ultrafast excited and ground-state dynamics of the green fluorescent protein chromophore in solution

    Mikas Vengris;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Xiang He;Alasdair F. Bell

  • Excited-State Dynamics of Carotenoids in Light-Harvesting Complexes. 1. Exploring the Relationship between the S1 and S* States

    Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum;Mikas Vengris;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Excited-State Self-Trapping and Ground-State Relaxation Dynamics in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Resolved with Broadband Pump–Dump–Probe Spectroscopy

    Erik Busby;Elizabeth C. Carroll;Erin M. Chinn;Lilian Chang

  • Two-photon brightness of azobenzene photoswitches designed for glutamate receptor optogenetics

    Elizabeth C. Carroll;Shai Berlin;Joshua Levitz;Michael A. Kienzler

  • Femtosecond ligand/core dynamics of microwave-assisted synthesized silicon quantum dots in aqueous solution

    Tonya M. Atkins;Arthur Thibert;Delmar S. Larsen;Sanchita Dey

  • Influence of intramolecular vibrations in third-order, time-domain resonant spectroscopies. II. Numerical calculations

    Kaoru Ohta;Delmar S. Larsen;Mino Yang;Graham R. Fleming

  • Three pulse photon echo studies of nondipolar solvation: Comparison with a viscoelastic model

    Delmar S. Larsen;Kaoru Ohta;Graham R. Fleming

Frequent Co-Authors

Rienk van Grondelle
Rienk van Grondelle Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
J. Clark Lagarias
J. Clark Lagarias University of California, Davis
Graham R. Fleming
Graham R. Fleming University of California, Berkeley
Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Klaas J. Hellingwerf University of Amsterdam
Frank E. Osterloh
Frank E. Osterloh University of California, Davis
Nigel D. Browning
Nigel D. Browning University of Liverpool
Adam J. Moulé
Adam J. Moulé University of California, Davis
Massimo Olivucci
Massimo Olivucci University of Siena
Roger G. Hiller
Roger G. Hiller Macquarie University

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