John White (biologist)

John G White co-developed confocal microscopy and mapped the complete nervous system of C. elegans, consisting of 302 neurons and over 7000 synapses. The study was published in 1986 by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ^[1], and is considered to be the first work in the emerging field of connectomics.

White received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974 and is currently a Professor of Anatomy and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Notes and references

^ White, J. G.; Southgate, E.; Thomson, J. N.; Brenner, S. (1986). "The Structure of the Nervous System of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 314 (1165): 1–340. Bibcode 1986RSPTB.314....1W. doi:10.1098/rstb.1986.0056. edit

External links

Professor White's UW Madison webpage

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