Dariusz Niedzwiedzki
research Scientist
EDUCATIONAL Background
MS in Physics (Specialization: Biophysics) June 2000 Supervisor: Prof. Wieslaw I. Gruszecki
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Department of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
PhD in Physics (Specialization: Biophysics) June 2004
Supervisor: Prof. Wieslaw I. Gruszecki
Department of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow June 2004 ¨C May 2009 Supervisor: Prof. Harry A. Frank
Chemistry Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Research Scientist present
Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Robert Blankenship
Research Interests
Spectroscopic properties of carotenoids and light harvesting pigment-protein complexes from bacteria and plants
PUBLICATIONS
1. Niedzwiedzki D., Gruszecki W.I., Interaction between chlorophyll a and violaxanthin in different steric conformation: Model studies in monomolecular layers, Colloids Surf., B 28 (2003) 27-38.
2. Gruszecki W.I., Stiel H., Niedzwiedzki D., Beck M., Milanowska J., Lokstein H., Leopold D., Towards elucidating the energy of the first excited state of the xanthophyll cycle pigments by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Biochim. Biophys. Acta: Bioenerg., 1708 (2005) 102-107.
3. Niedzwiedzki D., Krupa Z., Gruszecki W.I., Temperature-induced isomerization of violaxanthin in organic solvents and in Light-Harvesting Complex II, J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol. 78 (2005) 109-114 .
4. Niedzwiedzki D., Rusling J. F. and Frank H. A., Voltammetric redox potentials of carotenoids associated with the xanthophyll cycle in photosynthesis, Chem. Phys. Lett. 415 (2005) 308-312.
5. Niedzwiedzki D. M., Sullivan J. O., Polivka T., Birge R. R., Frank, H. A. Femtosecond Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Xanthophylls, J. Phys. Chem. B. 110 (2006) 22872-22885.
6. Niedzwiedzki D., Koscielecki J. F., Cong H., Sullivan J O., Gibson G. N., Birge R.? R., Frank H. A., Ultrafast dynamics and excited state spectra of open-chain carotenoids at room and low temperatures, J. Phys. Chem. B. 111 (2006) 5984-5998.
7. Hashimoto H., Fujii R., Yanagi K., Kusumoto T., Gardiner A. T., Cogdell R. J. Roszak, A. W., Issacs N. W., Pendon Z., Niedzwiedzki D., and Frank H. A. Structures and functions of carotenoids bound to reaction centers from purple photosynthetic bacteria, Pure Appl. Chem 78, (2006) 1505-1518.
8. Pol¨ªvka T., Niedzwiedzki D., Fuciman M., Sundstr?m V., Frank H. A., Role of B800 in carotenoid-bacteriachlorophyll energy and electron transfer in LH2 complexes from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, J. Phys. Chem. B. 111 (2007) 7422-7431.
9. Galinato M. G. I., Niedzwiedzki D., Deal C., Birge R. R. and Frank H. A., Cation radicals of xanthophylls, Photosynth. Res. 94 (2007) 67-78.
10. Cong H., Niedzwiedzki D., Gibson G. N. and Frank H. A., Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of xanthophylls at low temperature, J. Phys. Chem. B 112 (2008) 3558-3567.
11. Cong H., Niedzwiedzki D. M., Gibson G. N., LaFountain A. M., Kelsh R. M., Gardiner A. T., Cogdell R. J. and Frank H. A., Ultrafast time-resolved carotenoid to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in LH2 complexes from photosynthetic bacteria J. Phys. Chem. B 112 (2008) 10689-10703.
12. Chatterjee N., Niedzwiedzki D. M., Kajikawa T., Hasegawa S., Katsumura S., and Frank H. A., Effect of ¦Ð-electron conjugation length on the solvent-dependent S1 lifetime of peridinin, Chem. Phys. Lett. 463 (2008) 219-224 ,
12. Niedzwiedzki D. M., Daniel J. Sandberg, Cong H. Megan N. Sandberg, George N. Gibson,2 Robert R. Birge and Harry A. Frank, Ultrafast Time-resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Geometric Isomers? of Carotenoids, Chem. Phys. 357, (2009) 4-16.
14. Chatterjee N., Niedzwiedzki D. M., Aoki K., Kajikawa T., Katsumura S., Hashimoto H. and Frank H. A., Effect of structural modifications on the spectroscopic properties and dynamics of the excited states of ?peridinin Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 483 (2009) 146-155.
15. Ryppa C., Niedzwiedzki D., Morozowich N. L., Frank H.A., Br¨¹ckner C. ¡°Photophysical Concequences of the Step-wise Conversion of Two Pyrrole Moieties of Octaethylporphyrin to Pyridin-3-ones¡± Chem. Eur. J. 15 (2009) 5749-5762.
16. Niedzwiedzki D. M., Chatterjee N., Kajikawa T., Hasegawa S., Katsumura S., and Frank H. A. ¡°The Nature of the Intramolecular Charge Transfer State in Peridinin¡± (submitted to J. Phys. Chem. B)
