OEFC Personnel


Michael L. Merchant

OEFC Director
Michael L Merchant, Ph.D.
SRFC Director - Proteomics Core Laboratory
Proteomics
Donald Baxter Research Building, Room 102
570 South Preston St.
Louisville, KY 40202
Tel: 502-852-0245


Daniel Conklin

Exposure Studies Shared Resource Director
Daniel J. Conklin, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute
School of Medicine, University of Louisville
404E, Baxter II
580 South Preston Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Tel: 502-852-5836

Conklin Laboratory


Lu Cai

Metallomics Shared Resource Director
Lu Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Director of Pediatric Research Inst, Dept. of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Found. Chair for Pediatric Research
University of Louisville School of Medicine
571 S. Floyd St., Suite 432
Louisville, KY 40202
Tel: 502-852-2214

Department of Pediatrics


Rachel Neal

Microbiome Shared Resource Director
Rachel E. Neal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health and Infor. Sciences
Medical Dental Research Building, Rooms 208 & 209
511 S/ Floyd St.
Louisville, KY 40202
Tel: 502-852-3179

School of Public Health & Information Sciences


Xiang Zhang

SRFC Director - Center for Regulatory and
Environmental Analytical Metabolomics (CREAM)

Xiang Zhang, Ph.D.
Metabolomics and Metallomics
Shumaker Research Bld 349
2210 S Brook St,
Louisville, KY 40208
Tel: 502-852-8878


Wolfgang Zacharias

Director - UofL Sequencing Technology Center
Melissa Laird Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Louisville, Health Science Campus
Delia Baxter Building, Rooms 221B (office),
228/232 (labs)
Louisville, KY 40202
(502)895-9306