Lourival Gomes Machado

Gomes speaks tonite

I Rice President Norman Hackerman and Willoughby C. Williams, general chairman of the 1971-72 Rice University Fund, spoke with about 80 students last Sunday evening in the RMC concerning university finances and their relation to the RUF. Introduced by Will Rice President Bill Starnes, Hackerman f i rs t said that the Rice financial aid program is better than all but one private institution he h...

Machado de Assis's epilepsy.

Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the most important Brazilian writer and a great universal literary figure. Little is know about his medical, personal and family history. He hid his "disease" as much as possible. Machado referred to "strange things" having happened to him in his childhood. He described seizures as "nervous phenomena", "absenses", "my illness". Laet observed a seizure ...

Prof. Dr. Geraldo Gomes de Freitas.

Cell scientist to watch - Edgar Gomes.

Edgar Gomes earned his PhD at the University of Coimbra in Portugal under the supervision of Carlos Duarte. He then travelled to the USA to train as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Gregg Gundersen at Columbia University in New York. Before moving back to Portugal in 2014, Edgar was a group leader in the Myology Institute at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (France) a...

Development of microsatellite markers for Hancornia speciosa Gomes (Apocynaceae).

Herein, we describe 34 microsatellite loci developed using an enrichment genomic library for the tree species Hancornia speciosa Gomes (Apocynaceae). Thirty-five individuals were genotyped using 34 primers to analyze the polymorphisms at each locus. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 4 to 20. The average number of alleles was 8.11, and the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.62 to 0....