Betsy gives a videoconference seminar titled, “The Case of the UV-Sensitive Rice: An International Detective Story.” Archived in the National Institutes of Health Videocasting and Podcasting website (https://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp), the video gives a rare opportunity to see and hear Betsy in action.
You can access the video here (https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=8796&bhcp=1). Betsy first appears on the screen at around 24:00.
Betsy’s work on DNA damage and repair in rice was carried out in collaboration with Jun Hidema, a visiting researcher in her group during the late 1990s. Hidema is now an associate professor at Tohoku University, in Japan.
They studied a strain of rice called Norin 1, which was commercially important in Japan. At Tohoku University, Hidema had shown that the strain is ultrasensitive to UV damage. “Suspecting that Norin 1’s sensitivity could be the result of a DNA repair deficiency, Betsy ... invited Hidema to her lab to investigate the matter,” according to a Sept. 8, 2000, Brookhaven news release.
They confirmed the association between UV sensitivity and repair deficiency in 1997. In 2000, they reported that the repair deficiency of the rice strain is due to defective repair enzymes, which don’t bind tightly to the repair site.
Betsy gives a videoconference seminar titled, “The Case of the UV-Sensitive Rice: An International Detective Story.” Archived in the National Institutes of Health Videocasting and Podcasting website, the video gives a rare opportunity to see and hear Betsy in action.
You can access the video here. Betsy first appears on the screen at around 24:00.
Betsy’s work on DNA damage and repair in rice was carried out in collaboration with Jun Hidema, a visiting researcher in her group during the late 1990s. Hidema is now an associate professor at Tohoku University, in Japan.
They studied a strain of rice called Norin 1, which was commercially important in Japan. At Tohoku University, Hidema had shown that the strain is ultrasensitive to UV damage.
“Suspecting that Norin 1’s sensitivity could be the result of a DNA repair deficiency, Betsy...invited Hidema to her lab to investigate the matter,” according to a Sept. 8, 2000, Brookhaven news release.
They confirmed the association between UV sensitivity and repair deficiency in 1997. In 2000, they reported that the repair deficiency of the rice strain is due to defective repair enzymes, which don’t bind tightly to the repair site.
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