News & Events
Updates, seminars, and training from the lab.
Publication highlights, workshops, and gatherings connected to computational drug discovery at Texas Southern University.
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Latest updates
From the lab
Event
Feb 2025

BioRacc summer computing workshop
Hands-on Linux and command-line training in the BioRacc computing lab—foundational skills for docking, scripting, and high-performance research workflows.
Event
2024

RCMI 2024 poster presentations
BioRacc researchers presented work on SARS-CoV-2 spike–ACE2 interactions and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer drug discovery at the Research Centers in Minority Institutions symposium.
Event
2024

NW-BRaVE cyanobacteria–phage research
Students and mentors showcased redox-dependent molecular interactions in cyanobacteria and phage in partnership with NW-BRaVE at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Event
2025

United Health Foundation conference
Dr. Scott Widmann, Dr. Esther Olaleye, and Dr. Kehinde Idowu represented Texas Southern University at the Georgia World Congress Center.
News
2023

TB drug candidate study published in IJMS
Collaborative work on OJT008 against active and multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis appears in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
News
2022

SARS-CoV-2 spike–ACE2 studies released
Computational evaluations of Omicron and Delta spike stability, and inhibitor mechanisms at the spike–hACE2 interface, expand the lab’s antiviral portfolio.
Event
Ongoing

Student research opportunities
TSU students and faculty are welcome to join BioRacc projects in computational drug discovery, molecular modeling, and infectious disease research.
Event
By invitation

Seminar & collaboration visits
Partners and visiting researchers may arrange discussions on shared screening, HPC workflows, and experimental validation.
Training & workshop
Skills for computational discovery
Hands-on sessions that introduce computer-aided drug design, docking, scripting, and machine learning for biomedical research.
- Foundations
Introduction to computer-aided drug design
- Docking
Drug design and molecular docking systems
- Docking
Multi-ligand docking with PyRx
- Computing
Bash scripting and Linux for beginners
- Programming
Python: data types and operators
- Bioinformatics
Protein sequence alignment with ClustalW
- AI / ML
Machine learning and Naive Bayes models
- Discovery
Introduction to computer-aided drug discovery
- Discovery
Computer-aided drug discovery: target identification
- Discovery
Computer-aided drug design 3

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