John White (biologist)

John White
Born	John Graham White 1943 (age 73–74) Wales
Fields	Biophotonics Cell division
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Wisconsin–Madison Laboratory of Molecular Biology National Institute for Medical Research
Alma mater	Brunel University University of Cambridge
Thesis	Computer aided reconstruction of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Sydney Brenner
Doctoral students	Richard Durbin
Other notable students	Julie Ahringer Tony Hyman
Known for	Research using Caenorhabditis elegans
Notable awards	Mullard Award (1994) Member of EMBO (1994) Fellow of the Royal Society (2005)
Website directory.engr.wisc.edu/bme/faculty/white_john

John Graham White (born 1943)FRS is a Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

White was educated at Brunel University, where he was awarded an undergraduate degree in Physics in 1969. He went on to study for his Ph.D. at University of Cambridge in 1975 for work on computer-aided reconstruction of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans supervised by Sydney Brenner.

After working at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, White moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993. White's research investigates cell division in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. With collaborators Sydney Brenner,John Sulston and others, White co-developed confocal microscopy and mapped the complete nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans, consisting of 302 neurons and over 7000 synapses. The study was published in 1986 by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and is considered to be the first work in the emerging field of connectomes. More recently his research uses:

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