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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Provide the following information for the key personnel in the order listed on Form Page 2. Photocopy this page or follow this format for each person. NAME POSITIONTITLE Robert A. Niederman Professor EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.} INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE | YEAR(s} FIELD OF STUDY (if applicable} University of Connecticut, Storrs B.S. | 1959 Bacteriology University of Connecticut, Storrs MSS. 1961 Bacteriology University of Illinois, Urbana D.V.M. 1964 Veterinary Medicine University of Illinois, Urbana Ph.D. 1967 Bacteriology RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Concluding with present position, list, in chronological order, previous employment, experience, and honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee. List, in chronological order, the titles, all authors, and complete references to all publications during the past three years and to representative earlier publications pertinent to this application. {f the list of publications in the last three years exceeds two pages, select the most pertinent publications. DO NOT EXCEED TWO PAGES. Professional Experience 9/70-Present: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, 9/70- 7/80; Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, 7/80- and Vice Chair 7/89-94, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Research and Teaching in Biochemistry. (Research Fellow in Biochemistry, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, U. K., 77-78; Visiting Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Univ. of Sheffield, U. K. , 92). 10/68-9/70 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physiological Chemistry, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ. Research in Molecular Biology. 3/67-10/68: AEC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Research in Enzymology. 6/64- 3/57: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Bacteriology Div., Dept. of Dairy Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Research in Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry. 9/61-6/64: Research Assistant, Bacteriology Div., Dept. of Dairy Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Research in Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry. 9/59- 9/60: Research Assistant, Dept. of Animal Diseases, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Research in Veterin- ary Virology. Honors and Awards . Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Bacteriology, 1983-1988 Public Health Service Research Career Development Award GM00093 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 1975-1980 Merck Grant for Faculty Development, Merck Company Foundation, 1971 AEC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1967-1968 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1964-1967 Editor, [linois Veterinarian, 1963-1964 Academic Honors, University of Connecticut, 1958-1959 Publications (1993- ) 71. Olivera, L. M. and Niederman, R. A. (1993) Effect of phospholipase Aj on the carotenoid and bacteriochloro- phyll components of the light-harvesting complexes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides chromatophores. Biochemistry 32: 858-866. 72. Westerhuis, W. H. J., Farchaus, J. W. and Niederman, R. A. (1993) Altered spectral properties of the B875 light- harvesting pigment-protein complex in a Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutant lacking pufX. Photochem. Photobiol. 58:460-463. 73. Olivera, L. M., Westerhuis, W. H. J. and Niederman, R. A. (1994) Spectral alterations in Rhodobacter capsulatus mutants with site-directed changes in the bacteriochlorophyli-binding site of the B880 light-harvesting complex. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1185:318-326. 74, Wu, J. and Niederman, R. A. (1995) Topological organization of the Rieske iron-sulphur protein and subunit IV in the cytochrome be{ complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochem. J. 305:823-828. 75. Hu, Q., Delagrave, $., Youvan, D. C. and Niederman, R. A. (1995) Altered bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoid binding in combinatorial LH2 mutants of Rhodobacter capsulatus. In P. Mathis (ed.), Photosynthesis: from Light to Biosphere, Vol. 1, pp. 211-214, Kluwer, Boston, MA.