Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara, Brazilian biochemist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 22 June 1925 – São Paulo State 07 September 2004)

Described a method to culture dipteran Rhynchosciara angelae

With H. Tamaki & C. Pavan. Laboratory culture of Rhynchosciara angelae. Amer. Natur. 99:189-91, 1965

With M.C. Okretic. A micromethod for the assay of poly(A) containing RNA by gel electrophoresis. Biochem. J. 151:575-80, 1975

Discovered that DNA puffs were responsible to messengers production

With M.C. Okretic & J.S. Penoni. Messenger-like RNA synthesis and DNA chromosomal puffs in the salivary glands of Rhynchosciara americana. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 178:158-65, 1977

Papers in top journals

With M.F. Bonaldo & R.V. Santelli. The transcript from a DNA puffs of Rhynchosciara and its migration to the cytoplasm. Cell 17:827-33, 1979

With D.M. Glover, A. Zaha, A.J. Stocker, R.V. Santelli, M.T. Pueyo & S.M. Toledo. Gene amplification in Rhynchosciara salivary gland chromosomes. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. 79:2497-51, 1982