John White (biologist)

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, 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.

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External links

* [http://www.genetics.wisc.edu/faculty/profile.php?id=153 Professor White's UW Madison webpage]
* [http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/d77h370506650212/ Abstract of original publication of the map of the C elegans nervous system; complete pdf also available]
* [http://www.wormatlas.org/MoW_built0.92/toc.html text of 1986 publication in html form]


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