About
Dr. John Chad is Professor of Neuroscience at the Centre for Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK, a member of the Institute for Life Sciences and a member of the Southampton Neurosciences Group. In 2002 he co-founded Capsant Neurotechnologies Ltd. commercialising research into neurodegenerative diseases. His background includes research as a Faculty Research Biologist at UCLA (1980-85) studying neuronal calcium signalling, and research at the Sandoz Institute for Medical Research (1985-1986). His research interests include the application of optics to neuroscience, control of neuronal excitability, neurodegeneration, neuronal self-organisation and neurocomputation.
Research
Research interests
- Overall research interest is the processing and transformation of information within the nervous system in health and in neuropathologies
 - Organotypic neural cultures for studies of circuit development, neuronal function and neuropathology
 - Self-organisation and computational function of neurones and neural circuits
 - Super-resolution microscopy of sub-cellular organisation and function
 
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      Sponsor: EPSRC
    
  
      Sponsor: EPSRC
    
  
Publications
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    Peter Baksh, Michal Odstrčil, Magdalena Miszczak, Charles Pooley, Richard Chapman, Adam Wyatt, Emma Springate, John Chad, Katrin Deinhardt, Jeremy G. Frey & William Brocklesby,    
    2020, Science Advances, 6(18)
          
    
    
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    Alessandro Soloperto, Anna  Boccaccio, Andrea Contestabile, Monica  Moroni, Grace Hallinan, Gemma Palazzolo, John Chad, Katrin Deinhardt, Dario Carugo & Francesco Difato,    
    2018, Journal of Cell Science, 131(5)
          
        DOI: 10.1242/jcs.210393
      
    
    
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    Andrew Brown, John Chad, Muhammad Raihaan, Bin Kamarudin, Kier Dugan & Stephen Furber,    
    2017, IEEE Transactions on Multiscale Computing Systems
          
    
    
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    Edward T.F. Rogers, Shmma Quraishe, Guanghui Yuan, John Chad, P.J.S. Smith, Tracey Newman & Nikolai Zheludev,    
    2017
    
    
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    Edward Rogers, Shmma Quraishe, John Chad, Tracey Newman, Nikolai Zheludev & P.J.S. Smith,    
    2017
    
    
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    Edward T.F. Rogers, Shmma Quraishe, Tracey Newman, John Chad, Nikolai Zheludev & P.J.S. Smith,    
    2017
    
    
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    Edward Rogers, Shmma Quraishe, John Chad, Tracey Newman, Nikolai Zheludev & P.J.S. Smith,    
    2017, Biophysical Journal, 112(3, Supplement 1), 186a
          
    
    
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    Peter Baksh, Michal Odstrčil, Aaron Parsons, Jo Bailey, Katrin Deinhardt, John E. Chad, William S. Brocklesby & Jeremy G. Frey,    
    2017, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 849(1), 1-4
          
    
    
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    Jonathan Butement, Hamish Hunt, David Rowe, Neil Sessions, Owain Clark, Ping Hua, G. Senthil Murugan, John Chad & James Wilkinson,    
    2016, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 26(10)
          
    
    
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    Michal Odstrčil, Peter Baksh, Stuart Boden, Rachel Card, John Chad, Jeremy Frey & William Brocklesby,    
    2016, Optics Express, 24(8), 8360-8369
          
        DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.008360
      
    
    
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