Jenny Tung
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
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Selected Grants
Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine awarded by National Institutes of Health (Significant Contributor). 2017 to 2022
Stress and the Genome: Testing the Impact of Social Effects on Gene Regulation awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2022
Early adversity and DNA methylation in a primate model of stress and development. awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2022
Quantifying the genome-wide functional consequences of DNA methylation associated with early life adversity. awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Award awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2020
Behavioral and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2015 to 2020
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Leveraging natural hybridization to understand the evolution of primate gene regulation. awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2020
Phenotypic transitions in cooperative societies: an evolutionary and molecular approach awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2018
RAPID: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying breeder-specific skeletal growth in a highly cooperative mammal awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2018
Pages
Tung, J, Alberts, SC, Archie, EA, Gesquiere, LR, Altmann, J, Vaupel, JW, and Christensen, K. "Genes revisited: The biodemography of social environmental variation through a functional genomics lensThe male-female health-survival paradox: A comparative perspective on sex differences in aging and mortality (PublishedPublished)." Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography: A Collection of Papers. October 16, 2014. 39-64. Full Text
Loisel, DA, and Tung, J. "Genetic variation in the immune system of old world monkeys: Functional and selective effects." Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution. January 1, 2013. 65-90. Full Text
Tung, J, and Barreiro, LB. "The contribution of admixture to primate evolution." Current opinion in genetics & development 47 (December 2017): 61-68. (Review) Full Text
Grieneisen, LE, Livermore, J, Alberts, S, Tung, J, and Archie, EA. "Group Living and Male Dispersal Predict the Core Gut Microbiome in Wild Baboons." Integrative and comparative biology 57.4 (October 2017): 770-785. Full Text
Lea, AJ, Vilgalys, TP, Durst, PAP, and Tung, J. "Maximizing ecological and evolutionary insight in bisulfite sequencing data sets." Nature ecology & evolution 1.8 (August 2017): 1074-1083. (Review) Full Text
Snyder-Mackler, N, and Tung, J. "Vasopressin and the Neurogenetics of Parental Care." Neuron 95.1 (July 2017): 9-11. Full Text
Sun, S, Hood, M, Scott, L, Peng, Q, Mukherjee, S, Tung, J, and Zhou, X. "Differential expression analysis for RNAseq using Poisson mixed models." Nucleic acids research 45.11 (June 2017): e106-. Full Text
Miller, EA, Livermore, JA, Alberts, SC, Tung, J, and Archie, EA. "Ovarian cycling and reproductive state shape the vaginal microbiota in wild baboons." Microbiome 5.1 (January 19, 2017): 8-. Full Text
Kohn, JN, Snyder-Mackler, N, Barreiro, LB, Johnson, ZP, Tung, J, and Wilson, ME. "Dominance rank causally affects personality and glucocorticoid regulation in female rhesus macaques." Psychoneuroendocrinology 74 (December 2016): 179-188. Full Text
Snyder-Mackler, N, Sanz, J, Kohn, JN, Brinkworth, JF, Morrow, S, Shaver, AO, Grenier, J-C, Pique-Regi, R, Johnson, ZP, Wilson, ME, Barreiro, LB, and Tung, J. "Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques." Science (New York, N.Y.) 354.6315 (November 2016): 1041-1045. Full Text
Nédélec, Y, Sanz, J, Baharian, G, Szpiech, ZA, Pacis, A, Dumaine, A, Grenier, J-C, Freiman, A, Sams, AJ, Hebert, S, Pagé Sabourin, A, Luca, F, Blekhman, R, Hernandez, RD, Pique-Regi, R, Tung, J, Yotova, V, and Barreiro, LB. "Genetic Ancestry and Natural Selection Drive Population Differences in Immune Responses to Pathogens." Cell 167.3 (October 2016): 657-669.e21. Full Text
Blekhman, R, Tang, K, Archie, EA, Barreiro, LB, Johnson, ZP, Wilson, ME, Kohn, J, Yuan, ML, Gesquiere, L, Grieneisen, LE, and Tung, J. "Common methods for fecal sample storage in field studies yield consistent signatures of individual identity in microbiome sequencing data." Scientific reports 6 (August 16, 2016): 31519-. Full Text
Pages
Archie, EA, Tung, J, Blekhman, R, Barreiro, L, Grieneisen, L, Alberts, SC, and Altmann, J. "Socially structured gut microbiomes in wild baboons." March 2017.
Miller, CM, Snyder-Mackler, N, Nguyen, N, Fashing, PJ, Tung, J, Gustison, ML, and Wilson, ML. "Male reproductive strategies and paternity success in the multilevel social system of gelada monkeys from Guassa, Menz Highlands, Ethiopia." March 2016.
Snyder-Mackler, N, Kohn, J, Moore, C, Johnson, ZP, Wilson, ME, and Tung, J. "Dominance rank and rank disparity predict female rhesus macaque social relationships even in the absence of kin networks." March 2015.
Tung, J. "INSIGHTS FROM PRIMATE MODELS FOR HUMAN SOCIALITY: SYNERGIES BETWEEN STUDIES IN CAPTIVITY AND THE FIELD." September 2014.
Tung, J, Lea, AJ, Altmann, J, and Alberts, SC. "Social and ecological predictors of DNA methylation in wild baboons." March 2014.
Tung, J, Alberts, SC, and Wray, GA. "Evolution of functional genetic variation at immune loci in wild baboons." 2010.
Tung, J. Functional and Evolutionary Genetics of a Wild Baboon Population.. (PhD Thesis)