Prof 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
Robert Moss, Alexander E Zarebski, Sandra J Carlson, J. McCaw. Accounting for Healthcare-Seeking Behaviours and Testing Practices in Real-Time Influenza Forecasts.. Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 4, 12, 2019. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed4010012.
Ada WC Yan, Sophie G Zaloumis, Julie A Simpson, J. McCaw. Sequential infection experiments for quantifying innate and adaptive immunity during influenza infection. . PLoS computational biology, 15, e1006568 (23pp), 2019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006568.
Robert Moss, Alexander E Zarebski, Peter Dawson, Lucinda J Franklin, Frances A Birrell, J. McCaw. Anatomy of a seasonal influenza epidemic forecast. Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 43, 2019. doi: 10.33321/cdi.2019.43.7.
P. Cao, Katharine A Collins, Sophie Zaloumis, Thanaporn Wattanakul, Joel Tarning, Julie A Simpson, James McCarthy, J. McCaw. Modeling the dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in humans during malaria infection.. eLife, 8, 2019. doi: 10.7554/eLife.49058.
P. Cao, Katharine Collins, Sophie Zaloumis, Thanaporn Wattanakul, Joel Tarning, Julie Simpson, James McCarthy, J. McCaw. Modelling the population dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in humans during malaria infection. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2019. doi: 10.1101/641472.
Current Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Punya ALAHAKOON |
Past Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Tiffany (Ngo Nam) LEUNG | "Models of infectious disease transmission to explore the effects of immune boosting" |
| Michael LYDEAMORE | "Investigating the spread of Group A Strepococcus disease using multi-strain bacterial population dynamics models." |
| Alexander ZAREBSKI | "Quantitative epidemiology: A Bayesian perspective" |
Current MSc Students
| Name | Project title |
|---|---|
| Thomas WALSH | |
| Andrew STRINGER | |
| Qi ZHUANG |
Past MSc Students
| Name | Project title |
|---|---|
| Jason ARCHER | |
| Rory BURNHAM | |
| Dominic DELPORT | |
| Wing Yu LAM | |
| Dacong LIN | |
| Vincent PANG |
Recent Grant History
| Year(s) | Source | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2022 | NHMRC | Centre Of Excellence | Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination |
| 2017 - 2019 | ARC | Discovery | Mathematical and statistical methods for modelling invivo pathogen dynamics |
| 2016 - 2018 | NHMRC | NHMRC Project | Slowing the spread of malaria drug resistance by extending the lifespan of the artemisinin derivatives |
Responsibilities
- Assistant Dean Graduate Programs
- Computational Biology major coordinator
- Master of Computational Biology Co-Ordinator
Committees
- Postgraduate Programs Committee
- Strategic Planning Committee
- UGS Committee