Jenny Tung
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
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Selected Grants
Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2020 to 2025
Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2025
Social disadvantage and immune gene expression in an urban US population awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2021 to 2023
Preparing Genetic Counselors for Genomic Medicine Research 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 genomic consequences of chronic social stress for accelerated aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Phenotypic transitions in cooperative societies: an evolutionary and molecular approach awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2021
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
HARDAC-M: Enabling memory-intensive computation for genomics awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center (Major User). 2020 to 2021
Pages
Tung, J. “Genes revisited: The biodemography of social environmental variation through a functional genomics lens.” Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography: A Collection of Papers, 2014, pp. 39–64. Scopus, doi:10.17226/18822. Full Text
Loisel, D. A., and J. Tung. “Genetic variation in the immune system of old world monkeys: Functional and selective effects.” Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution, 2013, pp. 65–90. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7181-3_3. Full Text
Anderson, Jordan A., et al. “Broadening primate genomics: new insights into the ecology and evolution of primate gene regulation.” Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, vol. 62, June 2020, pp. 16–22. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.gde.2020.05.009. Full Text
Snyder-Mackler, Noah, et al. “Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 368, no. 6493, May 2020. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.aax9553. Full Text Open Access Copy
Fan, Yue, et al. “IMAGE: high-powered detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation using integrated methylation QTL mapping and allele-specific analysis.” Genome Biology, vol. 20, no. 1, Oct. 2019, p. 220. Epmc, doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1813-1. Full Text
Zipple, Matthew N., et al. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.” Elife, vol. 8, Sept. 2019. Epmc, doi:10.7554/eLife.47433. Full Text
Simons, Noah D., and Jenny Tung. “Social Status and Gene Regulation: Conservation and Context Dependence in Primates.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 23, no. 9, Sept. 2019, pp. 722–25. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.003. Full Text
Zipple, M. N., et al. “Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons.” Elife, vol. 8, Sept. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.7554/eLife.47433.001. Full Text
Turan, Zeliha Gözde, et al. “Molecular footprint of Medawar's mutation accumulation process in mammalian aging.” Aging Cell, vol. 18, no. 4, Aug. 2019, p. e12965. Epmc, doi:10.1111/acel.12965. Full Text
Devoto, Audra E., et al. “Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes.” Nature Microbiology, vol. 4, no. 4, Apr. 2019, pp. 693–700. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41564-018-0338-9. Full Text
Grieneisen, Laura E., et al. “Genes, geology and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences, vol. 286, no. 1901, Apr. 2019, p. 20190431. Epmc, doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0431. Full Text
Vilgalys, Tauras P., et al. “Evolution of DNA Methylation in Papio Baboons.” Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 36, no. 3, Mar. 2019, pp. 527–40. Epmc, doi:10.1093/molbev/msy227. Full Text
Pages
Archie, E. A., et al. “Socially structured gut microbiomes in wild baboons.” Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 57, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2017, pp. E194–E194.
Miller, Carrie M., et al. “Male reproductive strategies and paternity success in the multilevel social system of gelada monkeys from Guassa, Menz Highlands, Ethiopia.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 159, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016, pp. 230–230.
Snyder-Mackler, Noah, et al. “Dominance rank and rank disparity predict female rhesus macaque social relationships even in the absence of kin networks.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 156, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015, pp. 293–293.
Tung, J. “INSIGHTS FROM PRIMATE MODELS FOR HUMAN SOCIALITY: SYNERGIES BETWEEN STUDIES IN CAPTIVITY AND THE FIELD.” American Journal of Primatology, vol. 76, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014, pp. 47–47.
Tung, Jenny, et al. “Social and ecological predictors of DNA methylation in wild baboons.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 153, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014, pp. 256–256.
Tung, Jenny, et al. “Evolution of functional genetic variation at immune loci in wild baboons.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, WILEY-LISS, 2010, pp. 231–231.