Barry is a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. He has broad interests in applied mathematics and mathematical biology. Webpage: https://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~barrydh@unimelb/ Email: barrydh@unimelb.edu.au

Dr. Douglas Brumley is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and leads an interdisciplinary research group at the interface of mathematics, biophysics and microbial Ecology. The Brumley lab utilises mathematics, microfluidics and microscopy to study a range of dynamic processes in biology including bacterial motility, symbioses, nutrient cycling and flows around coral reefs. Email: d.brumley@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Edmund Crampin is Rowden White Chair of Systems Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Edmund directs the Systems Biology Lab, which develops mathematical models to investigate regulatory processes and pathways underlying biological processes and human disease. Current projects include developing energy-based approaches to modelling in systems and synthetic biology; …

Professor James McCaw is a Professor in Mathematical Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Modelling and Simulation Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. His interests span from modelling host-pathogen-drug dynamics, with a focus on influenza and malaria, to developing public health control strategies for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Website: …

James is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. His work is at the interface between applied mathematics, scientific computing and biology: he uses mathematical and scientific computing techniques to develop reliable, robust and efficient simulations of multiscale biological and physiological phenomena. James has published over 40 peer reviewed …

Dr. James Walker is a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. In 2020, they completed a PhD at the University of Adelaide which developed Bayesian inference and model selection methods for emerging infectious diseases. Subsequently, they joined the Australian COVID-19 modelling efforts where their research informed the Commonwealth Government's early public health …

Dr Jared M. Field is a McKenzie Fellow broadly interested in the intersection of mathematics, ecology and evolutionary biology. He is currently working on human life-history theory, Bayesian modelling of behaviour, and Indigenous Australian marriage rules and genetics. Webpage: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/jared-field/#tabmain Email: jared.field@unimelb.edu.au

Jennifer is an Associate Professor in applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on using mathematics and statistics to answer questions in biology and medicine. In particular, she develops mathematical models in areas such as wound healing, tumour growth and infectious disease epidemiology. Webpage: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/jennifer-flegg/ Email: Jennifer.flegg@unimelb.edu.au

Dr. Michael Pan is a Research Fellow at the Systems Biology Laboratory. His work makes use of energy-based approaches to develop mathematical models for a diverse range of applications in systems and synthetic biology. Current research interests include constructing large-scale dynamic models of biochemical pathways, understanding the relationship between energy and function in heart cells, and rationally designing enzymatic pathways …

Professor Michael Stumpf holds the Chair in Theoretical Systems Biology in the School of BioSciences and in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Michael’s work deals with the development of mathematical and statistical methods to infer the structure of mathematical models from data. His biological interest concerns cellular decision making processes, e.g. how does a single fertlised egg cell give …

Pengxing Cao is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne. He obtained his PhD in mathematics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2014. His PhD thesis looked at mathematical modelling of calcium oscillations in airway smooth muscle cells. Then he moved to Melbourne to work on infectious diseases modelling with …

Dr Stuart Johnston is a DECRA Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne. Stuart graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics (Hons) from the Queensland University of Technology. In 2017, he completed a PhD in Mathematical Biology at the Queensland University of Technology, focused on mathematical models of collective cell behaviour. Subsequently, Stuart joined the …

Adriana is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr James Osborne and Assoc Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her work focuses on cell-based computational models of wound healing. She is particularly interested in how heterogeneities at a cell-scale change behaviour at a tissue scale. She has also worked with …

Domenic is a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working under the supervision of Dr James Osborne and Prof Edmund Crampin. His current work is on the development of a cell-based, deformable model of tissues, to understand the mechanics of the colonic crypt epithelium. Domenic has also previously worked on a cell-based model …

Dominic Maderazo is a PhD student under the supervision of Jennifer Flegg at the University of Melbourne and Jonathan Keith at Monash University. His previous work includes multi-scale modelling of immune systems to investigate the effects of physiological changes may have on the effectiveness of the immune response. Currently, Dominic works on statistical methods for change point analysis and binary …

Jessica is a final year PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working with Dr James Osborne and Prof Jennifer Flegg. During her PhD, Jessica has been developing a coupled fluid-structure-growth model of vascular regression to study the role of the local blood flow on cellular migration and capillary wall mechanics during development. …

Ke Li is a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working with the Prof James McCaw and Dr Pengxing Cao. His current work is on the development of within-host dynamical models to understand essential interactions between influenza virus and immune responses. Email: kl2@student.unimelb.edu.au

Mahdieh is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr James Osborne and Assoc Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her research focuses on using cell-based mathematical modelling to understand the mechanics of the colonic crypt. Email: mmahdavi@student.unimelb.edu.au

Md Nurul Anwar is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics under the supervision of A/Prof. Dr Jennifer Flegg, Prof. James McCaw, A/Prof. Roslyn Hickson and A/Prof. Jack Richards. His work focusses on Malaria specially Plasmodium Vivax dynamics. He is currently working on developing a simple model from a complex one that can capture similar dynamics. Email: mdnurul.anwar@student.unimelb.edu.au

Punya is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. James McCaw and Prof. Peter Taylor. Her research focuses on using mathematics and statistics to understand the extinction of infectious diseases. Email: palahakoonmu@student.unimelb.edu.au

Antony is a Joint Ph.D. student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Brumley, Prof Linda Blackall, and Prof John Sader. His current work is on the Microscale fluid dynamics around coral surfaces, in particular, to understand the ciliary flows and its ecological consequences. Other than this, Antony …

Thomas is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr James Osborne and Prof James McCaw at the University of Melbourne. His work applies a temporospatial modelling approach to viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2 within tissue. An earlier project studied diffusion properties of carcinomas in cancer progression.

Gopikrishnan is a PhD student in the joint research school IITB-Monash Research Academy under the supervision of Prof Jerome Droniou (Monash University), A/Prof Jennifer Flegg (The University of Melbourne), and Prof Neela Nataraj (IIT Bombay). Gopikrishnan focuses on a range of topics in applied mathematics such as mathematical modelling, scientific computing, and numerical analysis. In particular, he conceives mathematical models …

Phillip Brown is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, supervised by Dr Ed Green, Associate Professor Ben Binder (both UofA) and Dr James Osborne. His work focuses on cell-based modelling of buckling epithelial tissues, with particular application to the colonic crypt. Currently he is working on a new modelling approach that has a wide range of applications across the off-lattice …

Sarah Belet is a MPhil student in the School of Mathematics, Monash University, and is supervised by A. Prof Jonathan Keith and A. Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her research looks at the spread of the bacteria Wolbachia within mosquito population as a means to suppress the spread of dengue fever.