Professor James MCCAW

Coordinator of Masters Computational Biology / Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics

  • Room: 303 OGS
  • Building: Old Geology South
  • Campus: Parkville

Research Groups

Recent Publications

  • Z. Wang, L. Zhu, T. Nguyen, Yanmin Wan, Sneha Sant, Sergio M Quiñones-Parra, Jeremy Chase Crawford, Auda A Eltahla, Simone Rizzetto, Rowena A Bull, Chenli Qiu, Marios Koutsakos, E Bridie Clemens, Liyen Loh, Tianyue Chen, L. Liu, P. Cao, Yanqin Ren, Lukasz Kedzierski, Tom Kotsimbos, J. McCaw, Nicole L La Gruta, Stephen J Turner, Allen C Cheng, Fabio Luciani, X. Zhang, Peter C Doherty, Paul G Thomas, J. Xu, Katherine Kedzierska. Clonally diverse CD38+HLA-DR+CD8+T cells persist during fatal H7N9 disease.. Nat Commun, 9, 824 (12pp), 2018. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03243-7.

  • M. Lydeamore, PT Campbell, W Cuningham, RM Andrews, T Kearns, D Clucas, R Gundjirryirr Dhurrkay, J Carapetis, SYC Tong, J. McCaw, J McVernon. Calculation of the age of the first infection for skin sores and scabies in five remote communities in northern Australia.. Epidemiology and infection, 1-8, 2018. doi: 10.1017/s0950268818001061.

  • Kok Fei Chan, Louise A Carolan, Daniil Korenkov, Julian Druce, J. McCaw, Patrick C Reading, Ian G Barr, Karen L Laurie. Investigating Viral Interference Between Influenza A Virus and Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus in a Ferret Model of Infection.. J Infect Dis, 2018. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy184.

  • P. Cao, Nectarios Klonis, Sophie Zaloumis, Con Dogovski, Stanley C Xie, Sompob Saralamba, Lisa J White, Freya JI Fowkes, Leann Tilley, Julie A Simpson, J. McCaw. A Dynamic Stress Model Explains the Delayed Drug Effect in Artemisinin Treatment of Plasmodium falciparum. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 61, AAC.00618-17 (16pp), 2017. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00618-17.

  • P. Cao, J. McCaw. The Mechanisms for Within-Host Influenza Virus Control Affect Model-Based Assessment and Prediction of Antiviral Treatment. Viruses-Basel, 9, 197 (20pp), 2017. doi: 10.3390/v9080197.

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Current Postgraduate Supervision

Name Thesis title
Tiffany (Ngo Nam) LEUNG "Dynamical properties of disease transmission models with seasonal forcing, immune boosting and vaccination"
Michael LYDEAMORE "Investigating the spread of Group A Strepococcus disease using multi-strain bacterial population dynamics models."
Alexander ZAREBSKI "Influenza modelling with applications in forecasting."

Current MSc Students

Name Project title
Dacong LIN
Jason ARCHER
Vincent PANG
Rory BURNHAM

Past MSc Students

Name Project title
Wing Yu LAM

Responsibilities

  • Computational Biology major coordinator

Committees

  • Postgraduate Programs Committee
  • Strategic Planning Committee
  • UGS Committee