The Smith Laboratory pursues structural neuroscience research at Stanford University, developing and applying new methods to explore brain circuit structure.  The work of the lab is supervised by Stephen J Smith, Ph.D., Prof. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Stephen J Smith received a PhD from the University of Washington in 1977 for research supervised by Profs. Charles F. Stevens and Wolfhard Almers.  He did postdoctoral research at Berkeley with Prof. Robert Zucker 1977-1980.  The Smith laboratory was established when Smith took a faculty position at Yale in 1980 and moved to Stanford University in 1989.   Prof. Smith teaches Neuroscience and Microscopy at Stanford and numerous international teaching venues.