{"id":4409,"date":"2015-08-28T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/spencer-smith-featured-in-spotlight-article\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:49:57","slug":"spencer-smith-featured-in-spotlight-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/spencer-smith-featured-in-spotlight-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Smith featured in Spotlight article!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">When Spencer Smith, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology in the School of Medicine who studies the brain, grew frustrated with the lack of resolution provided by traditional microscopes, he and his co-inventor Jeffrey Stirman decided to build his own. 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