Dr James Lefevre
Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics
Building 69, Room 705
Publications
Book Chapter
                  Donovan, Diane, Lefevre, James and Yazıcı, E. Şule  (2025). From block designs to codes to crypto and back again. Information security in a connected world: celebrating the life of Ed Dawson. (pp. 25-43) edited by Colin Boyd, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Leonie Simpson. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-83490-5_2
                
              Journal Articles
                  Tran, Vu, Duarte Romero, Briony L, Andersen, Hayley, Clarke, Michael, Collins, Louisa G, Dawson, Tamara, Hartel, Gunter, Lefevre, James G, Lucas, Robyn M, McLeod, Donald S A, Milne, Roger L, Sinclair, Craig, Whiteman, David C, Waterhouse, Mary and Neale, Rachel E (2025). The effect of daily sunscreen application on vitamin D: findings from the open-label, randomised, controlled Sun-D Trial. British Journal of Dermatology ljaf310. doi: 10.1093/bjd/ljaf310
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G., Lawson, Brodie A. J., Burrage, Pamela M., Donovan, Diane M. and Burrage, Kevin (2025). Optimal control of multiple myeloma assuming drug resistance and off-target effects. PLOS Computational Biology, 21 (8) e1012225, e1012225-8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012225
                
              
                  Broad, Zoe, Lefreve, James, Wilkinson, Melanie J., Barton, Samuel, Barbier, Francois, Jung, Hyungtaek, Donovan, Diane and Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel (2025). Gravitropic gene expression divergence associated with adaptation to contrasting environments in an Australian wildflower. Molecular Ecology, 34 (15) e17543, 1-18. doi: 10.1111/mec.17543
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane, Kemp, Tara and Lefevre, James (2025). Latin hypercubes realizing integer partitions. Discrete Mathematics, 348 (3) 114333, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114333
                
              
                  Holley, Caroline L., Monteleone, Mercedes, Fisch, Daniel, Libert, Alexandre E. S., Ju, Robert J., Choi, Joon H., Condon, Nicholas D., Emming, Stefan, Crawford, Joanna, Lawrence, Grace M. E. P., Coombs, Jared R., Lefevre, James G., Bajracharya, Rinie, Lahoud, Mireille H., Yap, Alpha S., Hamilton, Nicholas, Stehbens, Samantha J., Kagan, Jonathan C., Ariotti, Nicholas, Burgener, Sabrina S. and Schroder, Kate (2024). Pyroptotic cell corpses are crowned with F-actin-rich filopodia that engage CLEC9A signaling in incoming dendritic cells. Nature Immunology, 26 (1) eaas8995, 1-35. doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-02024-3
                
              
                  Lawson, Sarah, Donovan, Diane and Lefevre, James (2024). An application of node and edge nonlinear hypergraph centrality to a protein complex hypernetwork. PLoS One, 19 (10) e0311433, e0311433. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311433
                
              
                  Barton, Samuel, Coster, Adelle, Donovan, Diane and Lefevre, James (2024). Applying hypergraphs to studies in quantitative biology. LIFE: International Journal of Health and Life-Sciences, 9, 21-33. doi: 10.20319/lijhls.2024.9.2133
                
              
                  Barton, Samuel, Broad, Zoe, Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel, Donovan, Diane and Lefevre, James (2023). Hypergraphs and centrality measures identifying key features in gene expression data. Mathematical Biosciences, 366 109089, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2023.109089
                
              
                  Thomas, S. M., Lefevre, J. G., Baxter, G. and Hamilton, N. A. (2021). Characterization of tissue types in basal cell carcinoma images via generative modeling and concept vectors. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 94 101998, 101998. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2021.101998
                
              
                  Thomas, Simon M., Lefevre, James G., Baxter, Glenn and Hamilton, Nicholas A. (2021). Non-melanoma skin cancer segmentation for histopathology dataset. Data in Brief, 39 107587, 107587. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107587
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G., Koh, Yvette W. H., Wall, Adam A., Condon, Nicholas D., Stow, Jennifer L. and Hamilton, Nicholas A. (2021). LLAMA: a robust and scalable machine learning pipeline for analysis of large scale 4D microscopy data: analysis of cell ruffles and filopodia. BMC Bioinformatics, 22 (1) 410, 1-26. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04324-z
                
              
                  Thomas, Simon M., Lefevre, James G., Baxter, Glenn and Hamilton, Nicholas A. (2021). Interpretable deep learning systems for multi-class segmentation and classification of non-melanoma skin cancer. Medical Image Analysis, 68 101915, 101915. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101915
                
              
                  Lawlor, Kynan T, Zappia, Luke, Lefevre, James, Park, Joo-Seop, Hamilton, Nicholas A, Oshlack, Alicia, Little, Melissa H and Combes, Alexander N (2019). Nephron progenitor commitment is a stochastic process influenced by cell migration. eLife, 8 e41156. doi: 10.7554/elife.41156
                
              
                  Ward, Michelle, Rhodes, Jonathan R., Watson, James E.M., Lefevre, James, Atkinson, Scott and Possingham, Hugh P. (2019). Use of surrogate species to cost-effectively prioritize conservation actions. Conservation Biology, 34 (3) cobi.13430, 600-610. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13430
                
              
                  Short, Kieran M., Combes, Alexander N., Lisnyak, Valerie, Lefevre, James G., Jones, Lynelle K., Little, Melissa H., Hamilton, Nicholas A. and Smyth, Ian M. (2018). Branching morphogenesis in the developing kidney 1 is not impacted by nephron formation or integration. eLife, 7 e38992. doi: 10.7554/eLife.38992
                
              
                  Lefevre, James, Short, Kieran M, Lamberton, Timothy O, Michos, Odyssé, Graf, Daniel, Smyth, Ian M and Hamilton, Nicholas A (2017). Branching morphogenesis in the developing kidney is governed by rules that pattern the ureteric tree. Development (Cambridge, England), 144 (23), 4377-4385. doi: 10.1242/dev.153874
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G., Chiu, Han S., Combes, Alexander N., Vanslambrouck, Jessica M., Ju, Ali, Hamilton, Nicholas A. and Little, Melissa H. (2017). Self-organisation after embryonic kidney dissociation is driven via selective adhesion of ureteric epithelial cells. Development, 144 (6), 1087-1096. doi: 10.1242/dev.140228
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G., Combes, Alexander N., Little, Melissa H. and Hamilton, Nicholas A. (2016). Analysed cap mesenchyme track data from live imaging of mouse kidney development. Data in Brief, 9, 149-154. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.08.053
                
              
                  Combes, Alexander N., Lefevre, James G., Wilson, Sean, Hamilton, Nicholas A. and Little, Melissa H. (2016). Cap mesenchyme cell swarming during kidney development is influenced by attraction, repulsion, and adhesion to the ureteric tip. Developmental Biology, 418 (2), 297-306. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.06.028
                
              
                  Zubkov, V. S., Combes, A. N., Short, K. M., Lefevre, J. G., Hamilton, N. A., Smyth, I. M., Little, M. H. and Byrne, H. M. (2015). A spatially-averaged mathematical model of kidney branching morphogenesis. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 379, 24-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.04.015
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane M., Griggs, Terry S., Lefevre, James G. and McCourt, Thomas A. (2015). Further biembeddings of twofold triple systems. Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, 8 (2), 267-273. doi: 10.26493/1855-3974.415.ecd
                
              
                  Lamberton, Timothy O., Lefevre, James, Short, Kieram M., Smyth, Ian M. and Hamilton, Nicholas A. (2015). Comparing and distinguishing the structure of biological branching. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 365, 226-237. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.10.001
                
              
                  Combes, Alexander N., Short, Kieran M., Lefevre, James, Hamilton, Nicholas A., Little, Melissa H. and Smyth, Ian M. (2014). An integrated pipeline for the multidimensional analysis of branching morphogenesis. Nature Protocols, 9 (12), 2859-2879. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2014.193
                
              
                  Short, Kieran M., Combes, Alexander N., Lefevre, James, Ju, Adler L., Georgas, Kylie M., Lamberton, Timothy, Cairncross, Oliver, Rumballe, Bree A., McMahon, Andrew P., Hamilton, Nicholas A., Smyth, Ian M. and Little, Melissa H. (2014). Global quantification of tissue dynamics in the developing mouse kidney. Developmental Cell, 29 (2), 188-202. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.02.017
                
              
                  Wu, Selwin K., Gomez, Guillermo A., Michael, Magdalene, Verma, Suzie, Cox, Hayley L., Lefevre, James G., Parton, Robert G., Hamilton, Nicholas A., Neufeld, Zoltan and Yap, Alpha S. (2014). Cortical F-actin stabilization generates apical–lateral patterns of junctional contractility that integrate cells into epithelia. Nature Cell Biology, 16 (2), 167-178. doi: 10.1038/ncb2900
                
              
                  Lefevre, J., Marshall, D. J., Combes, A. N., Ju, A. L., Little, M. H. and Hamilton, N. A. (2013). Modelling cell turnover in a complex tissue during development. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 338, 66-79. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.08.033
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane M., Griggs, Terry S., Lefevre, James G. and McCourt, Thomas A. (2013). Cyclic Biembeddings of Twofold Triple Systems. Annals of Combinatorics, 18 (1), 57-74. doi: 10.1007/s00026-013-0211-8
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane, Lefevre, James, Waterhouse, Mary and Yazici, Emine Sule (2012). Defining Sets of Full Designs with Block Size Three II. Annals of Combinatorics, 16 (3), 507-515. doi: 10.1007/s00026-012-0143-8
                
              
                  Blomberg, Simon P., Lefevre, James G., Wells, Jessie A. and Waterhouse, Mary (2012). Independent contrasts and PGLS regression estimators are equivalent. Systematic Biology, 61 (3), 382-391. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr118
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane M., Lefevre, James G., McCourt, Thomas A. and Cavenagh, Nicholas J. (2012). Distinct equilateral triangle dissections of convex regions. Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 53 (2), 189-210.
                
              
                  Abueida, Atif A., Lefevre, James and Waterhouse, Mary (2012). The spectrum of non-polychromatic equitable edge colored Steiner triple systems. Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 80, 405-414.
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane M., Lefevre, James G., McCourt, Thomas A., Cavenagh, Nicholas J. and Khodkar, Abdollah (2012). Identifying flaws in the security of critical sets in latin squares via triangulations. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 52, 243-268.
                
              
                  Billington, Elizabeth J., Donovan, Diane, Lefevre, James, McCourt, Thomas and Lindner, C. C. (2011). The triangle intersection problem for nested Steiner triple systems. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 51, 221-233.
                
              
                  Abueida, Atif A., Lefevre, James and Waterhouse, Mary (2011). Equitable edge colored Steiner triple systems. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 50, 155-163.
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G. and McCourt, Thomas A. (2011). The disjoint m-flower intersection problem for latin squares. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 18 (1). doi: 10.37236/529
                
              
                  Donovan, Diane M., Grannell, Mike J., Griggs, Terry S., Lefevre, James G. and McCourt, Thomas (2011). Self-embeddings of cyclic and projective Steiner quasigroups. Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 19 (1), 16-27. doi: 10.1002/jcd.20258
                
              
                  Lefevre, James and Waterhouse, Mary (2010). On defining sets of full designs. Discrete Mathematics, 310 (21), 3000-3006. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2010.07.010
                
              
                  Donovan, D. M., Grannell, M. J., Griggs, T. S. and Lefevre, J. G. (2010). On parity vectors of Latin squares. Graphs and Combinatorics, 26 (5), 673-684. doi: 10.1007/s00373-010-0942-9
                
              
                  Donovan, D. M., Drápal, A., Grannell, M. J., Griggs, T. S. and Lefevre, J. G. (2010). Quarter-regular biembeddings of Latin squares. Discrete Mathematics, 310 (4), 692-699. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2009.08.020
                
              
                  Donovan, D., Lefevre, J., Waterhouse, M. and Yazici, E. S. (2009). On defining sets of full designs with block size three. Graphs and Combinatorics, 25 (6), 825-839. doi: 10.1007/s00373-010-0882-4
                
              
                  Lefevre, J. G., Donovan, D. M., Grannell, M. J. and Griggs, T. S. (2009). A constraint on the biembedding of Latin squares. European Journal of Combinatorics, 30 (2), 380-386. doi: 10.1016/j.ejc.2008.05.007
                
              
                  Adams, Peter, Lefevre, James and Waterhouse, Mary (2009). Some results on 2-perfect cube decompositions. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 44, 95-103.
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G. (2008). The volume and foundation of star trades. Discrete Mathematics, 308 (11), 2059-2066. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2007.04.054
                
              
                  Waterhouse, Mary and Lefevre, James (2008). Some 2-coloured 5-cycle decompositions. The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 64, 187-202.
                
              
                  Donovan, D. M., Lefevre, J. G. and Van Rees, G. H. J. (2008). On the spectrum of critical sets in latin squares of order 2n. Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 16 (1), 25-43. doi: 10.1002/jcd.20144
                
              
                  Lefevre, James G. (2007). Six-cycle trades and a lower bound on the trade volumes of weakly connected graphs. Utilitas Mathematica, 72, 251-266.
                
              
                  Lefevre, J. G., Donovan, D. M., Cavenagh, N. and Drapal, A. (2007). Minimal and minimum size latin bitrades of each genus. Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 48 (2), 189-203.
                
              
                  Jenkins, P. (2006). Embedding a latin square in a pair of orthogonal latin squares. Journal Of Combinatorial Designs, 14 (4), 270-276. doi: 10.1002/jcd.20087
                
              
                  Lefevre, James (2006). Graphical trades. Bulletin of The Australian Mathematical Society, 73 (3), 477-478. doi: 10.1017/S0004972700035486
                
              
                  Lefevre, JG (2006). Maximal triangle trades with foundation 5 (mod 6) - the final case. Ars Combinatoria, 81 (-), 325-342.
                
              
                  Lefevre, JG (2005). Trade spectrum of K4-e. Graphs And Combinatorics, 21 (4), 475-488. doi: 10.1007/s00373-005-0633-0
                
              
                  Lefevre, J and Waterhouse, M (2005). Some equitably 3-colourable cycle decompositions of complete equipartite graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 297 (-), 60-77. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2005.03.021
                
              
                  Lefevre, J. G. (2004). Steiner trade spectra of complete partite graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 288 (1-3), 89-98. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2004.06.021
                
              
                  Adams, P, Bryant, D, Lefevre, J and Waterhouse, M (2004). Some equitably 3-colourable cycle decompositions. Discrete Mathematics, 284 (1-3), 21-35. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2003.11.019
                
              Conference Papers
                  Combes, Alexander, Lefevre, James, Short, Kieran, Ju, Adler, Georgas, Kylie, Lamberton, Timothy, Cairncross, Oliver, Rumballe, Bree, McMahon, Andrew, Little, Melissa, Hamilton, Nicholas and Smyth, Ian (2017). An integrated cell, tissue and whole organ profile of kidney morphogenesis. 18th International Congress of Developmental Biology, Singapore, 18-22 June 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2017.04.432
                
              
                  Wu, S., Gomez, G. A., Michael, M., Verma, S., Cox, H., Lefevre, J. G., Parton, R. G., Hamilton, N. A. and Yap, A. S. (2014). Disruption of cortical tension patterning drives the outgrowth of oncogenic cells. EACR-23: 23rd Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research, Munich, Germany, 5-8 July 2014. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/S0959-8049(14)50251-1
                
              
                  Combes, A., Short, K., Lefevre, J., Ju, A., Georgas, K., Rumballe, B., Mcmahon, A., Hamilton, N., Smyth, I. and Little, M. (2013). An Integrated Cell, Tissue and Whole Organ Profile of Kidney Morphogenesis. 49th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology, Brisbane Australia, 9-11 September 2013. Richmond, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/nep.12121
                
              
                  Cavenagh, Nicholas, Hmlinen, Carlo, Lefevre, James G. and Stones, Douglas S. (2011). Multi-latin squares. 22nd British Combinatorial Conference, St Andrews Scotland, 6 - 10 July 2009. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier BV * North-Holland. doi: 10.1016/j.disc.2010.06.026
                
              
                  Lefevre, J. G., Donovan, D. M. and Drapal, A. (2008). Permutation Representation of 3 and 4-Homogenous Latin Bitrades. Netherlands: IOS Press.
                
              
                  Donovan, D. M., Lefevre, J. G. and Simpson, L. (2008). A discussion of constrained binary embeddings with applications to cryptanalysis of irregularly clocked stream ciphers. International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM 2006), Bangalore, India, 15-18 December 2006. Bangalore, India: Ramanujan Mathematical Society.
                
              
                  Donovan, D M, Lefevre, J G and Simpson, L (2006). A discussion of constrained binary embeddings with applications to cryptanalysis of irregularly clocked stream ciphers. International Conference on Discrete Mathematics 2006 (ICDM 2006), Banglaore, India, 15-18 December 2006. Bangalore: Indian Institute of Science.
                
              Thesis
                  Lefevre, James (2005). Graphical trades. PhD Thesis, School of Physical Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/2c5082b
                
              Data Collections
                  Lefevre, James and Cairncross, Oliver (2021). Demonstration data for LLAMA open source analysis pipeline and visualiser publication. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/3084db2
                
              
                  Lefevre, James (2019). Machine Learning Macropinocytosis. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/dc2f523