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.
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, 1194-1201, 2018. doi: 10.1017/s0950268818001061.
Current Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Punya ALAHAKOON | |
| Tiffany (Ngo Nam) LEUNG | "Dynamical properties of disease transmission models with seasonal forcing, immune boosting and vaccination" |
| Alexander ZAREBSKI | "Influenza modelling with applications in forecasting." |
Past Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Michael LYDEAMORE | "Investigating the spread of Group A Strepococcus disease using multi-strain bacterial population dynamics models." |
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