People

Spencer LaVere Smith, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Center
Faculty Director, Confocal and Multiphoton Imaging Facility
Primary Faculty, Neurobiology Curriculum

Selected awards: HFSP Career Development Award, Klingenstein Fellowship Award, HFSP Long Term Fellow, A.P. Giannini Foundation, NIH NRSA (NEI), Samuel Eiduson Lectureship, Hortense Fishbaugh Fellowship

Postdoc, University College London, advisor Michael Hausser
Postdoc, UCLA, advisor Joshua Trachtenberg
Ph.D., UCLA, advisors Thomas Otis and Jack Judy
B.S., University of Iowa, physics and mathematics (double)
Ikuko Smith, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected awards: Helen Lyng White Fellow, Uehara Memorial Foundation Fellowship, UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, Hyde Fellowship, MIND Institute Scholars Award

Postdoc, University College London, advisor Michael Hausser
Ph.D., UCLA, advisor Stephanie White
D.V.M., Hokkaido University 北海道大学
Jeffrey Stirman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected awards: Sigma Xi Best Thesis Award

Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University, advisor Denis Wirtz
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, advisor Hang Lu
B.S., Arizona State University, physics
Leah Townsend
Neurobiology Graduate Student

Selected awards: HHMI/UNC Program in Translational Medicine Scholar, Neurobiology Curriculum Fellowship, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Carolina Research Scholar

B.S., UNC-Chapel Hill, psychology
B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill, philosophy