We are a computational lab at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, TX — a beautiful island just southeast of Houston. We develop computational methods, incorporating chemistry-, physics-based, data- and AI-driven approaches, and apply them to study Protein-Protein Interactions regarding their molecular biophysics and interaction pathways. Our long-term goal is to 1) understand disease mechanisms by exploiting the predicted PPI networks, 2) narrow down key protein targets for mutation design, drug discovery and vaccine development. We are interested in Host-Pathogen Interactions and epigenetics. Our lab is part of Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics in the UTMB School of Medicine. Founded in 1891, UTMB is the first medical school in Texas and the nation’s first unified public medical school and hospital. UTMB is also one of the eight academic and research institutions within the Texas Medical Center (TMC), the largest medical center in the world.