Staff/Faculty

Director

Dr. Thomas Albrecht
Professor
Director, Infectious Disease and Toxicology Optical Imaging Core
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 1019
The University of Texas Medical Branch
MRB 4.126
Galveston, Texas 77555-1019
Phone: OIC Lab: (409) 772-0063; Office: (409) 772-4902; Fax: (409) 772-5065
E-mail: talbrech@utmb.edu

Thomas Albrecht, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, is the Director of the OIC. Dr. Albrecht received his doctoral degree in 1973 from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Microbiology and Biochemistry. His dissertation was entitled “The Oncogenic Potential of Human Cytomegalovirus.” In 1974 he joined the Department of Tropical Public Health of Harvard University, where he was a Research Fellow under the guidance of Dr. Thomas H. Weller. At Harvard he studied the interactions of human herpesviruses with cultured cells of the central nervous system. He has more than thirty years of experience in studying the cellular changes elicited by infectious agents, particularly human herpesviruses, and toxic substances.

Advisory Committee

	Jingwu Xie, Ph.D. Sealy Center Cancer Cell Biology		Joaquin Cortiella, M.D. Anesthesiology
	Rob Davey, Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology		Hal Hawkins, Ph.D. Pathology
	Shinji Makino, D.V.M., Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology		Xuejie Yu, M.D, Ph.D. Pathology
	Yogesh Awasthi, Ph.D. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology		Joan Nichols, M.D. Internal Med-Infectious Disease
	Frank Schmalstieg, M.D. Pediatric Infectious Disease		Lisa Elferink, Ph.D. Cancer Center
	Sarah Daniel Accounting Coordinator