University of Louisville researchers are opening their labs for us on Friday afternoon after the poster session.  Visit and tour some labs for a couple hours before you proceed down to the Speed School of Engineering for a reception & play time in the new MakerSpace.

Micro/Nano Technology Center (MNTC), Shumaker Research Building 1st floor  
RSVP requested, on your registration form (If you don't RSVP, you can still see the lab and do the self-guided audio tour)
The Micro/Nano Technology Center (MNTC) comprises three primary facilities:

1. Cleanroom Facility – A $30M, 10,000 ft² Class 100/1000 laboratory used for the fabrication of novel materials and devices.
   
2. Huson Imaging & Characterization Laboratory (HICL) – Equipped with a comprehensive suite of Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs) and Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs), HICL supports both imaging and the creation of advanced nanoscale structures.
3. BioEM Laboratory – Located on the UofL Health Sciences Campus, this imaging facility offers specialized equipment for life and medical science research, while also supporting cross-disciplinary applications.

The MNTC serves University of Louisville researchers, academic collaborators, and industry partners, providing access to cutting-edge tools and expertise in micro- and nanofabrication. Its services are utilized regionally, nationally, and internationally.

To learn more, visit our website: https://louisville.edu/micronano

Annual Meeting Links 2025

The Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary professional environment that cultivates scientific discovery and understanding. Thank you for contributing to our advancement of science by behaving professionally, respectfully and collegially at all times.

Marklein Anthropology Lab (Belknap Academic Building BAB 417)
In the BAB teaching labs, Anthropology students at UofL receive hands-on training in forensic anthropology methods. These skills allow them--in the field or lab--to learn about individuals in the recent and distant past through their skeletal remains. These stories bring justice to the dead and teach us about history from the people who lived it.

Physics Instructional Lab (Belknap Academic Building - BAB 422)

Designed to spark curiosity and engagement, the physics Instructional labs enable students to explore the connections between fundamental physical principles, observable phenomena, and real-world technologies.  Demonstrations will showcase: (i) energy conversion processes, illustrating how from waste heat, light, and chemical energy can be transformed to electricity, and (ii) the wave nature of light, revealed through diffraction and interference experiments.

Basemann Lab (310, 311, 312, and 316 in Chemistry Building, 2320 South Brook St.)

The Basemann Lab is an organometallic catalysis lab. What that means is we use metals like iron, manganese, cobalt, nickel, and copper to transform molecules into things like materials, pharmaceuticals, or other value-added products. The goal of our work is to replace toxic heavy metals that are traditionally used in these reactions with much more abundant and environmentally benign systems that work to do novel transformations for emerging markets. Much of what we do is focused on understanding how these metals behave on an atomic level during these reactions, so we can fine-tune the systems to achieve the results we desire. To this end, we dabble in newer technologies like computational chemistry, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We hope to bring the techniques and technology that shaped the 20th century and introduce the technology and new targets for sustainability and health that predominate the goals for the 21st century. More

Speed School Outreach Lab - Miller Information Technology Center (MITC) lower level

Campus Sustainability Tour - starts at 4:30 and ends at the ESSR Building for the reception. Meet outside the main entrance of BAB.
The University of Louisville is committed to integrating sustainability into everything we do - from how we manage our facilities, finances and people to what we teach in the classroom and what we research in the lab. Our vision is to create a university that is itself a living laboratory for sustainability and a campus community that leads by example and educates as much by what we do as by what we say. Our goal is to make decisions which reflect a balanced consideration for environmental, social and economic responsibility and to continually learn as we go.   Video

Biology Labs at Belknap campus

Demarco Lab, Shumaker 353

Adult or tissue-resident stem cells are crucial progenitor cells that maintain our tissues and organs throughout life. The Demarco lab is interested in how metabolism can impact stem cells. Using Drosophila flies as a model, we use genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and other approaches to determine how changes in lipid (fat) metabolism impact the abilities of stem cells to be maintained and activated. Our ultimate goal is to find common pathways and targets that can be shared across different stem cell populations, including in humans.

Christian Lab - Shumaker 327

All plants are colonized by microorganisms that can play important roles for their hosts, including enemy defense, growth promotion, and stress tolerance. The Christian Lab studies the factors that determine how these communities of microorganisms come together, and what functions they serve. We investigate these processes in a wide variety of plant species, including wild and native plants as well as crops. We are also interested in how global change impacts plant-associated microbial communities, and if these microbes can help protect their plants from the symptoms of global change. On this lab crawl, you will see the lab space where we grow microbes, perform molecular work, and do experimental manipulations, but we also spend time doing science in the field and in the greenhouse!

Labs at Health Sciences Campus.  RSVP requested on your registration form. Follow a group leader leaving from the Belknap Academic Building on a trip to U of L's Health Sciences Campus

Menze Lab, Baxter 2 Biomedical Research Building, 580 South Preston Street

Dr. Menze’s molecular physiology laboratory investigates the basis of animal anhydrobiosis (‘life without water’). We develop biomimetic approaches to enhance the long-term preservation of biologics, including the dry preservation of red blood cells for transfusion in austere environments and the stabilization of biomedical-relevant model cell lines at room temperature. A variety of agencies, including the Department of Defense (DOD), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), funded or are currently funding our work at UofL.

Advanced Heart Failure Research Program (4th floor of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd

 Steven C. Koenig PhD and Gretel Monreal PhD together lead the Advanced Heart Failure Research (AHFR) Program at UofL, one of only a handful of programs in the world with expertise in the pre-clinical development and testing of innovative cardiovascular devices for the treatment of end-stage heart failure.  They have been awarded $55.6M funding across 96 grants and contracts and have helped advance 15 cardiovascular devices into clinical use, including the Abiomed AbioCor and Carmat Aeson total artificial hearts.  They founded and direct UofL’s Heartwheels! STEM Mobile Outreach Program to bring their passion for the cardiovascular sciences out to the schools and community to ignite interest in STEM fields and heart-healthy living via fun hands-on, experiential activities.  To date, 14,165 people have participated in Heartwheels! events.