Recent Activities - Nigel H. Collier

GENI-DB in Bioinformatics

posted Apr 10, 2012 7:38 PM by Nigel Collier

A new database of international health events for humans and animals is now available from the BioCaster site and described here in an article published in OUP's Bioinformatics.

Positive/negative affects paper at Medicine 2.0

posted Apr 10, 2012 7:30 PM by Nigel Collier

Son Doan and I have an extended abstract in Medicine 2.0 (Boston, September 2012) entitled "A study of positive and negative affects in tracking influenza-like-illness (ILI) rate in Twitter data". Please see here for the abstract.

Epidemiologists put social media in the spotlight

posted Feb 16, 2012 8:47 AM by Nigel Collier

A new article in Nature by Katherine Rowland discusses the challenges and opportunities in harnessing digital media for health surveillance: http://www.nature.com/news/epidemiologists-put-social-media-in-the-spotlight-1.10012

Comparison of Web-Based Biosecurity Intelligence Systems: BioCaster, EpiSPIDER and HealthMap

posted Feb 16, 2012 8:44 AM by Nigel Collier

A very interesting new comparative study by the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis, University of Maryland and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Canberra into the complementarities among three open access systems. PubMed abstract is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22182229 with the main article here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1865-1682.2011.01258.x/abstract

Tracking public sentiment during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

posted Sep 23, 2011 12:12 AM by Nigel Collier

We were honoured to have our recent work commented on in the New Scientist this month. You can find the story here. The original article can be found archived on arxiv here.

10 DAAD-NII postdoctoral fellowships for German nationals (November deadline)

posted Aug 4, 2011 5:05 PM by Nigel Collier

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) is offering up to 10 fully funded postdoctoral fellowships for German nationals with PhD cum laude to conduct their own research programs at NII in collaboration with an NII professor.  This generous program offers 1 year of funding plus the option of an extra year.  The contact for further information is:

Elisabeth Hartmann / Referat 521 Deutscher Akademischer 
Austauschdienst Internationalisierung von Forschung und 
wissenschaftlichem Nachwuchs Kennedyallee 50 53175 Bonn Tel.: ++49 228 
882 384 Fax.: ++49 228 882 9384 E-Mail: e.hartmann@daad.de 
<mailto:e.hartmann@daad.de>

and

http://www.daad.de/ausland/foerderungsmoeglichkeiten/stipendiendatenbank/00658.de.html?detailid=853

Invited talk at AAAS 2012

posted Jul 28, 2011 2:51 PM by Nigel Collier

In February I'll be giving a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Vancouver in the symposium on Fighting Terrorism and Infectious Diseases. See here for more details.

JSPS 1-2 year postdoc fellowships

posted May 25, 2011 7:13 PM by Nigel Collier

It's that time of year again and deadlines are coming up for 1-2 year postdoc fellowships from JSPS. There are two application routes: through an institution in Japan such as NII or through a nominating authority abroad. Deadlines inside NII are August 12th 2011 and April 13th 2012. See JSPS's Web site for further information at http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/postdoctoral.html#long. See my note on New Postdocs for information on the topics I'm interested in supervising.

Invited talk at the Politics of Disease Surveillance Workshop

posted May 25, 2011 7:09 PM by Nigel Collier

In July I'll be going to Griffith University to give a talk on Web sensing for real time disaster detection and tracking.

Invited talk at the EBI Industry Workshop on Literature Services

posted May 25, 2011 7:05 PM by Nigel Collier

I'll be giving an invited talk at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge in June on analysing biomedical events in the grey literature.