Publications
Submitted
Rebecca H Chisholm, Jake A. Lacey, Jan Kokko, Patricia T Campbell, Malcolm I. McDonald, Jukka Corander, Mark R. Davies, Steven Y C Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard. Global and local epidemiology of Group A Streptococcus indicates that naturally-acquired immunity is enduring and strain-specific. Submitted, 2020.
Ben B Hui, Damien Brown, Rebecca H Chisholm, Nicholas Geard, Jodie McVernon, David Regan. Modelling testing and response strategies for COVID-19 outbreaks in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Submitted, 2020.
Journal articles
Rebecca H Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha Bowen, Patricia T Campbell, Steven Y C Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard. A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases. PeerJ 8:e10203.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Nikki Sonenberg, Jake A. Lacey, Malcolm I. McDonald, Manisha Pandey, Mark R. Davies, Steven Y C Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard. Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection. PLoS Computational Biology 16(6): e1007182, 2020 .
Rebecca H Chisholm, Brian D Connelly, Benjamin Kerr, and Mark M Tanaka. The role of pleiotropy in the evolutionary maintenance of positive niche construction. The American Naturalist, 192(1):35--48, 2018.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Patricia T Campbell, Yue Wu, Steven Y C Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard. Implications of asymptomatic carriers for infectious disease transmission and control. Royal Society Open Science, 5: 172341, 2018.
John-Sebastian Eden, Rebecca H Chisholm, Rowena A Bull, Peter A White, Edward C Holmes and Mark M Tanaka. Persistent infections in immunocompromised hosts are rarely sources of new pathogen variants. Virus Evolution, 3(2): vex018, 2017.
Rebecca H Chisholm, James M Trauer, Darren Curnoe, and Mark M Tanaka. Controlled fire use in early humans might have triggered the evolutionary emergence of tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113:9051--9056, 2016.
Rebecca H Chisholm and Mark M Tanaka. The emergence of latent infection in the early evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 283:20160499, 2016.
Tommaso Lorenzi, Rebecca H Chisholm, and Jean Clairambault. Tracking the evolution of cancer cell populations through the mathematical lens of phenotype-structured equations. Biology Direct, 11(1):43, 2016.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Tommaso Lorenzi, and Alexander Lorz. Effects of an advection term in nonlocal Lotka-Volterra equations. Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 14:1181--8, 2016.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Tommaso Lorenzi, Laurent Desvillettes, and Barry D Hughes. Evolutionary dynamics of phenotype-structured populations: from individual-level mechanisms to population-level consequences. Zeitschrift fürangewandte Mathematik und Physik, 67(4):100, 2016.
Tommaso Lorenzi, Rebecca H Chisholm, Laurent Desvillettes, and Barry D Hughes. Dissecting the dynamics of epigenetic changes in phenotype-structured populations exposed to fluctuating environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 386:166--176, 2015.
Tommaso Lorenzi, Rebecca H Chisholm, Matteo Melensi, Alexander Lorz, and Marcello Delitala. Mathematical model reveals how regulating the three phases of T-cell could counteract immune evasion. Immunology, 146(2):271--280, 2015.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Tommaso Lorenzi, Alexander Lorz, Annette K Larsen, Luis Neves De Almeida, Alexandre Escargueil, and Jean Clairambault. Emergence of drug tolerance in cancer cell populations: an evolutionary outcome of selection, nongenetic instability, and stress-induced. Cancer Research, 75(6):930--939, 2015.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Barry D Hughes, and Kerry A Landman. Erosion by a one-dimensional random walk. Physical Review E, 90(2):022140, 2014.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Barry D Hughes, Kerry A Landman, and Muhammad H Zaman. Analytic study of three-dimensional single cell migration with and without proteolytic enzymes. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 6(2):239--249, 2013.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Barry D Hughes, Kerry A Landman, and John M Hutson. Mathematical modelling of gubernaculum during inguino-scrotal migration shows limb bud characteristics. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 48(8):1762--1766, 2013.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Barry D Hughes, Kerry A Landman, Georg Mayer, and Paul M Whitington. When are cellular oscillators sufficient for sequential segmentation? Journal of Theoretical Biology, 279(1):150--160, 2011.
Georg Mayer, Chiharu Kato, Björn Quast, Rebecca H Chisholm, Kerry A Landman, and Leonie M Quinn. Growth patterns in Onychophora (velvet worms): lack of a localized posterior proliferation zone. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10: 339, 2010.
Rebecca H Chisholm, Barry D Hughes, Kerry A Landman. Building a morphogen gradient with-out diffusion in a growing tissue. i, 5(9): e12857, 2010.
Reviews
Rebecca H Chisholm, Tommaso Lorenzi, and Jean Clairambault. Cell population heterogeneity and evolution towards drug resistance in cancer: biological and mathematical assessment, theoretical treatment optimisation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 1860(11):2627--2645, 2016.
Government reports
Other publications
Neela Janakiramanan, Freya Shearer and Rebecca Chisholm. Three medical experts on the purpose and limits of Coronavirus modelling, Women's Agenda, published online April 9, 2020.
Rebecca H Chisholm and Nicholas Geard. When do we stop vaccinating against an infection disease? The Conversation, published online June 8, 2017.
Rebecca H Chisholm. Mathematical modelling of cell migration and biological systems driven by cell proliferation, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2013.
Rebecca H Chisholm. Cell proliferation in a scaffold, Honours thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2009.