All Publications

Complete chronological list of journal articles, preprints, book chapters, and proceedings

Works are listed in reverse chronological order. For curated highlights see Selected Publications, or visit Google Scholar for up-to-date citation metrics.

Published Works & Preprints

Feng, Mian, Thomas J Hall, John F O’Grady, Kseniia Maksimova, Michael Salter-Townshend, John A Browne, David E MacHugh, Lisa M Katz, Beatrice A McGivney, and Emmeline W Hill. 2026. “Integrative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Identify Functionally Relevant Causal Genes for Exercise in a Large Animal Model.”

Mahoney, Catherine F, Michael Salter-Townshend, Darren J Fitzpatrick, and Denis C Shields. 2026. “Detecting Genomic Regions Enriched for Reciprocal Recombination in Autism Spectrum Disorder.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2026.05.26.727863.

McHugo, Gillian P, James A Ward, Said Ismael Ng’ang’a, Laurent AF Frantz, John A Browne, Michael Salter-Townshend, Grace M O’Gorman, et al. 2026. “Integrative Genomics Identifies Candidate Genes Underlying Trypanotolerance in Hybrid African Cattle.” Evolutionary Applications 19 (6): e70274. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.70274.

Moss, Alexandra L, Orlagh O’Reilly, Amy Rand, Amy R Holtby, Siobhan Mullan, Katharyn Mitchell, Emmeline W Hill, Michael Salter-Townshend, and Lisa M Katz. 2026. “Prospective Categorisation of Maternal Care Style in Thoroughbred Broodmares.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 107004.

Whyte, Hannah, Raquel Cama-Moncunill, Peter G Dunne, Aidan P Moloney, Frank McDermott, Matta Ebaid, Michael Salter-Townshend, Frank J Monahan, and Olaf Schmidt. 2026. “Discrimination of Beef Production System and Regional Geography by Multivariate Analysis of Stable Isotope Ratios (C, N, S, O, H).” Food Control 185: 112054.

Kaur, Prabhleen, Simone Ciuti, Michael Salter-Townshend, and Damien R Farine. 2025. “Using an Agent-Based Model to Inform Sampling Design for Animal Social Network Analysis.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 79 (3): 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03586-4.

McHugo, Gillian P, James A Ward, Said Ismael Ng’ang’a, Laurent AF Frantz, Michael Salter-Townshend, Emmeline W Hill, Grace M O’Gorman, Kieran G Meade, Thomas J Hall, and David E MacHugh. 2025. “Genome-Wide Local Ancestry and the Functional Consequences of Admixture in African and European Cattle Populations.” Heredity 134 (1): 49–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-024-00734-w.

Whyte, Hannah, Frank McDermott, David van Acken, Peter G Dunne, Aidan Moloney, Raquel Cama-Moncunill, Michael Salter-Townshend, Frank J Monahan, and Olaf Schmidt. 2025. “Discrimination of Beef from Predominantly Grass-Fed and Other Production Systems Using the Trace Elemental Profile of Muscle.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73 (50): 32169–82.

Conteddu, Kimberly, Holly M English, Andrew W Byrne, Bawan Amin, Laura L Griffin, Prabhleen Kaur, Virginia Morera-Pujol, et al. 2024. “A Scoping Review on Bovine Tuberculosis Highlights the Need for Novel Data Streams and Analytical Approaches to Curb Zoonotic Diseases.” Veterinary Research 55 (1): 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-024-01314-w.

Conteddu, Kimberly, Prabhleen Kaur, Michael Brown, Julian Fennessy, Stephanie Fennessy, Emma Hart, Bawan Amin, et al. 2024. “Random Subsamples of Animal Populations Can Reveal Intrinsic Differences in Sociality with Key Implications in Ecology, Conservation and Disease Transmission.” bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.07.622426.

Kaur, Prabhleen, Simone Ciuti, Federico Ossi, Francesca Cagnacci, Nicolas Morellet, Anne Loison, Kamal Atmeh, et al. 2024. “A Protocol for Assessing Bias and Robustness of Social Network Metrics Using GPS Based Radio-Telemetry Data.” Movement Ecology 12 (1): 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00494-6.

Kaur, Prabhleen, Simone Ciuti, Adele K Reinking, Jeffrey L Beck, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2024. “aniSNA: An R Package to Assess Bias and Uncertainty in Social Networks Obtained from Animals Sampled via Direct Observations or Satellite Telemetry.” bioRxiv.

Maksimova, Kseniia, Emmeline W Hill, Beatrice A McGivney, David E MacHugh, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2024. “Exploring Genetic Diversity and Identifying Key Contributors in the Thoroughbred Horse Population for Development of an Imputation Reference Panel.”

Ward, James A, Said I Ng’ang’a, Imtiaz AS Randhawa, Gillian P McHugo, John F O’Grady, Julio M Flórez, John A Browne, et al. 2024. “Genomic Insights into the Population History and Adaptive Traits of Latin American Criollo Cattle.” Royal Society Open Science 11 (3): 231388.

Zhao, Jinbo, Adrian O’Hagan, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2024. “How Group Structure Impacts the Numbers at Risk for Coronary Artery Disease: Polygenic Risk Scores and Nongenetic Risk Factors in the UK Biobank Cohort.” Genetics 227 (3): iyae086. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae086.

O’Sullivan, Roisin, Raquel Cama-Moncunill, Michael Salter-Townshend, Olaf Schmidt, and Frank J Monahan. 2023. “Verifying Origin Claims on Dairy Products Using Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis and Random Forest Classification.” Food Chemistry: X 19: 100858.

Wang, Fangyijie, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2023. “Novel Models for Multiple Dependent Heteroskedastic Time Series.” arXiv Preprint arXiv:2310.17760. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17760.

Zhao, Jinbo, Michael Salter-Townshend, and Adrian O’Hagan. 2023. “A Simulation Study for Multifactorial Genetic Disorders to Quantify the Impact of Polygenic Risk Scores on Critical Illness Insurance.” European Actuarial Journal 13 (2): 775–813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13385-023-00345-5.

Hart, Emma E, Simone Ciuti, Leticia Herrmann, Julian Fennessy, Emma Wells, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2022. “Static and Dynamic Methods in Social Network Analysis Reveal the Association Patterns of Desert-Dwelling Giraffe.” Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76 (5): 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03167-9.

Ward, James A, Gillian P McHugo, Michael J Dover, Thomas J Hall, Said Ismael Ng’ang’a, Tad S Sonstegard, Daniel G Bradley, Laurent AF Frantz, Michael Salter-Townshend, and David E MacHugh. 2022. “Genome-Wide Local Ancestry and Evidence for Mitonuclear Coadaptation in African Hybrid Cattle Populations.” iScience 25 (7): 104672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104672.

Zhao, Jinbo, Adrian O’Hagan, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2022. “Polygenic Risk Scores for Determining Number at Risk.” In Irish Journal of Medical Science, 191:S70. Suppl 3. Springer.

Cotroneo, Chiara E, Isobel Claire Gormley, Denis C Shields, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2021. “Computational Modelling of Chromosomally Clustering Protein Domains in Bacteria.” BMC Bioinformatics 22 (1): 593. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04512-x.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Simon Myers. 2019a. “Fine-Scale Inference of Ancestry Segments Without Prior Knowledge of Admixing Groups.” Genetics 212 (3): 869–89. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302139.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Simon Myers. 2019b. “Local Ancestry Inference in Non-Model Organisms.” In Human Heredity (European Meeting on Mathematical Genetics), 83:244. 5. Karger.

McMackin, Leo, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2018. “Regression Tree Ensembles for Irish Property Valuation.”

Sweeney, James, Michael Salter-Townshend, Tamsin Edwards, Caitlin E Buck, and Andrew C Parnell. 2018. “Statistical Challenges in Estimating Past Climate Changes.” WIREs Computational Statistics 10 (5): e1437.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Tyler H McCormick. 2017. “Latent Space Models for Multiview Network Data.” The Annals of Applied Statistics 11 (3): 1217–44.

Qin, Xiangju, Pádraig Cunningham, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2016. “Online Trans-Dimensional von Mises–Fisher Mixture Models for User Profiles.” Journal of Machine Learning Research 17 (200): 1–51.

Becker, Brett A, John Regan, Michael Salter-Townshend, and Kevin Casey. 2015. “Making a Case for an Irish Supercomputer List (Irish500).”

Parnell, Andrew C, James Sweeney, Thinh K Doan, Michael Salter-Townshend, Judy RM Allen, Brian Huntley, and John Haslett. 2015. “Bayesian Inference for Palaeoclimate with Time Uncertainty and Stochastic Volatility.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics 64 (1): 115–38.

Qin, Xiangju, Pádraig Cunningham, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2015. “The Influence of Network Structures of Wikipedia Discussion Pages on the Efficiency of WikiProjects.” Social Networks 43: 1–15.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2015. “Role Analysis in Networks Using Mixtures of Exponential Random Graph Models.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 24 (2): 520–38.

Qin, Xiangju, Michael Salter-Townshend, and Pádraig Cunningham. 2014. “Exploring the Relationship Between Membership Turnover and Productivity in Online Communities.” In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 8:406–15. 1.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2014. “Mixtures of Biased Sentiment Analysers.” Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 8 (1): 85–103.

Parnell, Andrew C, James Sweeney, Thinh K Doan, Michael Salter-Townshend, Judy RM Allen, Brian Huntley, and John Haslett. 2012. “On Bayesian Modelling of the Uncertainties in Palaeoclimate Reconstruction.” arXiv Preprint arXiv:1206.5009. https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5009.

Salter-Townshend, Michael. 2012. “Analysing My Facebook Friends.” Significance 9 (4): 40–42.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and John Haslett. 2012. “Fast Inversion of a Flexible Regression Model for Multivariate Pollen Counts Data.” Environmetrics 23 (7): 595–605.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2012a. “Sentiment Analysis of Online Media.” In Algorithms from and for Nature and Life. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2012b. “Variational Bayesian Inference for the Latent Position Cluster Model for Network Data.” Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 57 (1): 661–71.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, Arthur White, Isabella Gollini, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2012. “Review of Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Algorithms, and Software.” Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 5 (4): 243–64.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2011. “Clustering Nodes in a Network by Role.” In Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), 17.

Brew, Anthony, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2010. “A Latent Space Mapping for Link Prediction.” In Networks Across Disciplines: Theory and Applications; NIPS Workshop.

Parnell, Andrew C, John Haslett, Michael Salter-Townshend, Brian Huntley, and Judy RM Allen. 2009. “Quantifying Uncertainty in Palaeoclimate Reconstructions.” In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 785.

Salter-Townshend, Michael. 2009. “Fast Approximate Inverse Bayesian Inference in Non-Parametric Multivariate Regression with Application to Palaeoclimate Reconstruction.” PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and Thomas Brendan Murphy. 2009. “Variational Bayesian Inference for the Latent Position Cluster Model.” In Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs; NIPS Workshop.

Haslett, John, Andrew Parnell, and Michael Salter-Townshend. 2006. “Modelling Temporal Uncertainty in Palaeoclimate Reconstructions.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 26–37.

Haslett, John, Matt Whiley, Sudipto Bhattacharya, Michael Salter-Townshend, Simon P Wilson, Judy RM Allen, Brian Huntley, and Fraser JG Mitchell. 2006. “Bayesian Palaeoclimate Reconstruction.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society 169 (3): 395–438.

Salter-Townshend, Michael, and John Haslett. 2006. “Modelling Zero Inflation of Compositional Data.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, 448–56.