Nic Geard

Longitudinal Analysis of Group A Streptococcus emm Types and emm Clusters in a High-Prevalence Setting: Relationship between Past and Future Infections.

Patricia Therese Campbell, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard, Mark R Davies, Kate A Worthing, Jake A Lacey, Pierre R Smeesters, Michael R Batzloff, Joseph Kado, Adam WJ Jenney, Jodie Mcvernon, Andrew C Steer

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Group A Streptococcus is a pathogen of global importance, but despite the ubiquity of group A Streptococcus infections, the relati..

Profiling Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission and the resulting disease burden in the five highest tuberculosis burden countries

Romain Ragonnet, James M Trauer, Nicholas Geard, Nick Scott, Emma S McBryde

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) control efforts are hampered by an imperfect understanding of TB epidemiology. The true age distribu..

Optimal timing of influenza vaccine during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Will Cuningham, Nicholas Geard, James E Fielding, Sabine Braat, Shabir A Madhi, Marta C Nunes, Lisa M Christian, Shin-Yu Lin, Chien-Nan Lee, Koushi Yamaguchi, Hans Bisgaard, Bo Chawes, An-Shine Chao, Geraldine Blanchard-Rohner, Elizabeth P Schlaudecker, Barbra M Fisher, Jodie McVernon, Robert Moss

Journal article  |  2019  |  Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

BACKGROUND: Pregnant women have an elevated risk of illness and hospitalisation from influenza. Pregnant women are recommended to ..

GEOFIL: A spatially-explicit agent-based modelling framework for predicting the long-term transmission dynamics of lymphatic filariasis in American Samoa

Zhijing Xu, Patricia M Graves, Colleen L Lau, Archie Clements, Nicholas Geard, Kathryn Glass

Journal article  |  2019  |  Epidemics

In this study, a spatially-explicit agent-based modelling framework GEOFIL was developed to predict lymphatic filariasis (LF) tran..

What can urban mobility data reveal about the spatial distribution of infection in a single city?

Robert Moss, Elham Naghizade, Martin Tomko, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Public Health

Background Infectious diseases spread through inherently spatial processes. Road and air traffic data have been used to model thes..

Quantity or quality? Assessing relationships between perceived social connectedness and recorded encounters

Alison Dias, Nicholas Geard, Patricia Therese Campbell, Deborah Warr, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLOS ONE

Investigation of group A Streptococcus immune responses in an endemic setting, with a particular focus on J8

Patricia Therese Campbell, Hannah Frost, Pierre R Smeesters, Joseph Kado, Michael F Good, Michael Batzloff, Nicholas Geard, Jodie McVernon, Andrew Steer

Journal article  |  2018  |  Vaccine

Implications of asymptomatic carriers for infectious disease transmission and control

Rebecca H Chisholm, Patricia T Campbell, Yue Wu, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2018  |  Royal Society Open Science

MODELLING LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS TRANSMISSION IN AMERICAN SAMOA LONG-TERM POPULATION DYNAMICS AND SPATIALLY HETEROGENEOUS RISKS

Zhijing Xu, Kathryn Glass, Colleen Lau, Nicholas Geard, Patricia Graves, Archie Clements

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

A Synthetic Population for Modelling the Dynamics of Infectious Disease Transmission in American Samoa

Zhijing Xu, Kathryn Glass, Colleen L Lau, Nicholas Geard, Patricia Graves, Archie Clements

Journal article  |  2017  |  Scientific Reports

Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

Thiripura vino, Gurmeet R Singh, Belinda Davision, Patricia T Campbell, Michael J Lydeamore, Andrew Robinson, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2017  |  PeerJ

Who's holding the baby? A prospective diary study of the contact patterns of mothers with an infant

Patricia Therese Campbell, Jodie McVernon, Niraj Shrestha, Paula M Nathan, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2017  |  BMC Infectious Diseases

Determining the Best Strategies for Maternally Targeted Pertussis Vaccination Using an Individual-Based Model

Patricia Therese Campbell, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2017  |  American Journal of Epidemiology

Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

Thiripura Vino, Gurmeet Singh, Belinda Davison, Patricia Campbell, Michael Lydeamore, Andrew Robinson, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2017

Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is ty..

Characterising pandemic severity and transmissibility from data collected during first few hundred studies

Andrew J Black, Nicholas Geard, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon, Joshua V Ross

Journal article  |  2017  |  Epidemics

Influence of Population Demography and Immunization History on the Impact of an Antenatal Pertussis Program

Patricia Therese Campbell, Jodie McVernon, Peter McIntyre, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2016  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

Model-Informed Risk Assessment and Decision Making for an Emerging Infectious Disease in the Asia-Pacific Region

Robert Moss, Roslyn I Hickson, Jodie McVernon, James M McCaw, Krishna Hort, Jim Black, John R Madden, Nhi H Tran, Emma S McBryde, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Job Insecurity in Academic Research Employment: An Agent-Based Model

Eric Silverman, Nic Geard, Ian Wood

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  ALIFE 2016, THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SYNTHESIS AND SIMULATION OF LIVING SYSTEMS

The effects of demographic change on disease transmission and vaccine impact in a household structured population

Nicholas Geard, Kathryn Glass, James M McCaw, Emma S McBryde, Kevin B Korb, Matt J Keeling, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2015  |  Epidemics

Social encounter profiles of greater Melbourne residents, by location - a telephone survey

David A Rolls, Nicholas L Geard, Deborah J Warr, Paula M Nathan, Garry L Robins, Philippa E Pattison, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2015  |  BMC Infectious Diseases

Vaccination Programs for Endemic Infections: Modelling Real versus Apparent Impacts of Vaccine and Infection Characteristics

Romain Ragonnet, James M Trauer, Justin T Denholm, Nicholas L Geard, Margaret Hellard, Emma S McBryde

Journal article  |  2015  |  Scientific Reports

The Practice of Agent-Based Model Visualization

Alan Dorin, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2014  |  Artificial Life

A Bayesian Approach to the Validation of Agent-Based Models

KB Korb, N Geard, A Dorin

Book Chapter  |  2013  |  Intelligent Systems Reference Library

Self-organizing agent communities for autonomic resource management

Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Nicholas Geard, Terry R Payne, Michael Luck

Journal article  |  2013  |  Adaptive Behavior

Synthetic Population Dynamics: A Model of Household Demography

Nicholas Geard, James M McCaw, Alan Dorin, Kevin B Korb, Jodie McVernon

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Artifical Societies and Social Simulation

Developmental Motifs Reveal Complex Structure in Cell Lineages

Nicholas Geard, Seth Bullock, Rolf Lohaus, Ricardo BR Azevedo, Janet Wiles

Journal article  |  2011  |  Complexity

Stability in flux: Community structure in dynamic networks

J Bryden, S Funk, N Geard, S Bullock, VAA Jansen

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The structure of many biological, social and technological systems can usefully be described in terms of complex networks. Althoug..

Spatial Embedding as an Enabling Constraint: Introduction to a Special Issue of Complexity on the Topic of "Spatial Organization"

Seth Bullock, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2010  |  Complexity

COMPETITION AND THE DYNAMICS OF GROUP AFFILIATION

Nicholas Geard, Seth Bullock

Journal article  |  2010  |  Advances in Complex Systems

Dynamical Approaches to Modeling Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks

Nicholas Geard, Kai Willadsen

Journal article  |  2009  |  Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today: Reviews

Homophily and competition: Toward a model of group affiliation

N Geard, S Bullock

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Conference Proceedings - 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2009

Group formation and social evolution: A computational model

N Geard, S Bullock

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

LinMap: Visualizing complexity gradients in evolutionary landscapes

Nicholas Geard, Janet Wiles

Journal article  |  2008  |  Artificial Life

Autonomic resource management through self-organising agent communities

Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Terry Payne, Nick Geard, Michael Luck

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

A generative bias towards average complexity in artificial cell lineages

Rolf Lohaus, Nicholas L Geard, Janet Wiles, Ricardo BR Azevedo

Journal article  |  2007  |  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Directed evolution of an artificial cell lineage

Nicholas Geard, Janet Wiles

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

A gene network model for developing cell lineages

N Geard, J Wiles

Journal article  |  2005  |  Artificial Life

An individual based model examining the emergence of cooperative recognition in a social insect (Isoptera : Rhinotermitidae)

KA Copren, N Geard

Journal article  |  2005  |  Sociobiology

Maximally rugged NK landscapes contain the highest peaks

Benjamin Skellett, Benjamin Cairns, Nicholas Geard, Bradley Tonkes, Janet Wiles

Conference Proceedings  |  2005  |  Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation - GECCO '05

Towards more biological mutation operators in gene regulation studies

J Watson, N Geard, J Wiles

Journal article  |  2004  |  Biosystems

Structure and dynamics of a gene network model incorporating small RNAs

N Geard, J Wiles

Conference Proceedings  |  2003  |  The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2003. CEC '03.

Diversity maintenance on neutral landscapes: An argument for recombination

N Geard, J Wiles

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC'02 (Cat. No.02TH8600)

A comparison of neutral landscapes - NK, NKp and NKq

N Geard, J Wiles, J Hallinan, B Tonkes, B Skellet

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. CEC'02 (Cat. No.02TH8600)

Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

Thiripura Vino, Gurmeet R Singh, Belinda Davison, Patricia T Campbell, Michael Lydeamore, Andrew Robinson, Jodie McVernon, Steven YC Tong, Nicholas Geard

Journal article

Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is ty..

Assessing the risk of spread of COVID-19 to the Asia Pacificregion

Freya Shearer, James Walker, Nefel Tellioglu, James M McCaw, Jodie McVernon, Andrew Black, Nicholas Geard

Journal article

During the early stages of an emerging disease outbreak, governments are required to make critical decisions on how to respond app..