Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 2010
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2017
  • Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
  • Scholar In Residence in Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2012
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • AUG 2, 2022

    These Baboons Borrowed a Third of Their Genes From Their Cousins

  • APR 6, 2021

    A Male Baboon’s Dominance Gives Him Babies, but Costs Him Years

  • FEB 18, 2021

    Learning From Our Closest Relatives

  • SEP 16, 2020

    Fundamental Concepts: Primate Evolution's Tangled Tree

  • OCT 15, 2019

    How Status Sticks to Genes

  • SEP 25, 2019

    Duke's Jenny Tung Wins $625k MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant

  • DEC 17, 2018

    Baboon Sexes Differ in How Social Status Gets 'Under the Skin'

  • SEP 26, 2018

    Science News

    Jenny Tung Wants to Know How Social Stresses Mess With Genes

  • MAR 23, 2017

    Researchers Win $1.2M to Study Social Mobility in Meerkats

  • NOV 24, 2016

    Upward Mobility Boosts Immunity in Monkeys

  • APR 25, 2016

    The Washington Post

    Like humans, baboons with tough childhoods die earlier

  • APR 20, 2016

    Smithsonian

    For baboons, a tough childhood can lead to a short life

  • APR 14, 2016

    Rough Childhoods Have Ripple Effects for Baboons

  • FEB 22, 2016

    Two Junior Faculty Named 2016 Sloan Fellows

  • APR 2, 2015

    Being Born in Lean Times Is Bad News for Baboons

  • MAR 17, 2015

    UPI

    Study finds baboon friends regularly swap gut germs

  • MAR 16, 2015

    Baboon Friends Swap Gut Germs

  • SEP 17, 2014

    DAILY MAIL

    Having a boyfriend can make you live longer (at least if you're a baboon)

  • SEP 11, 2014

    The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: Baboon Friendships; 1,000th Heart Transplant

  • SEP 10, 2014

    Lady Baboons With Guy Pals Live Longer
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  Awards & Honors

  • Nomiated for Duke Postdoctoral Mentoring Award. Duke University. 2013
  • Chicago Fellows Post-Doctoral Fellowship. University of Chicago. 2010
  • Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Year Fellowship. Unknown. 2009
  • Primate Genomics Initiative Graduate Student Fellowship. Duke University. 2009
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Aging
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Epigenomics
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Genetic Variation
  • Hybridization, Genetic
  • Kenya
  • Papio
  • Primates
  • Social Behavior
  • Social Environment
  • Social status
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Kenya (Country) 
    • South Africa (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Gene regulation and social relationships across the life course in a nonhuman primate model awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2026
  • Behavior and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2025
  • Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
  • Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
  • Social disadvantage and immune gene expression in an urban US population awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2023
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Adaptive introgression and its phenotypic consequences in naturally hybridizing baboons awarded by  National Science Foundation 2020 - 2023
  • Preparing Genetic Counselors for Genomic Medicine Research awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2023
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Genetic and evolutionary determinants of the immune response in wild baboons awarded by  National Science Foundation 2021 - 2023
  • Stress and the Genome: Testing the Impact of Social Effects on Gene Regulation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2023
  • Early adversity and DNA methylation in a primate model of stress and development. awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2023
  • Evolutionary genetics of the immune response in wild baboons awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation 2021 - 2022
  • Phenotypic transitions in cooperative societies: an evolutionary and molecular approach awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization 2017 - 2021
  • Quantifying the genome-wide functional consequences of DNA methylation associated with early life adversity. awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
  • HARDAC-M: Enabling memory-intensive computation for genomics awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center 2020 - 2021
  • Quantifying the genomic consequences of chronic social stress for accelerated aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
  • Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Award awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2016 - 2020
  • Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 1979 - 2020
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Leveraging natural hybridization to understand the evolution of primate gene regulation. awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2020
  • RAPID: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying breeder-specific skeletal growth in a highly cooperative mammal awarded by  National Science Foundation 2017 - 2018
  • Gene regulatory analysis of social integration and resilience during aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2017
  • HARDAC+:Reproducible HPC for next-generation genomics awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center 2016 - 2017
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Effects of the Social Environment on DNA Methylation and Immune Function in Wild Baboons awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2017
  • EAGER: New Methods for Genomic Analysis of Noninvasive Samples awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2017
  • Epigenetic Consequences of Social Status across the Life Span in a Primate Model awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2016
  • Genetic and Behavioral Predictors of Susceptibility to Social Stress awarded by  National Science Foundation 2013 - 2015
  • Novel Integration of Multidimensional Data from an Emerging Model of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2015
  • Mechanisms and Consequences of Social Connectedness in a Wild Primate Population awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
  • Statistical Models to Investigate Long-Distance QTL Transcription Regulation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2015
  • Collaborative Research: Genes, environment and gene expression in a wild primate population awarded by  National Science Foundation 2009 - 2013
  • Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Genetic Variation and Gene Expression in Wild Baboons awarded by  National Science Foundation 2007 - 2009
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  External Relationships

  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  • Institute of Primate Research
  • Kenya Wildlife Service
  • Max Planck Society Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
  • University of Nairobi
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Vilgalys, T. P., Fogel, A. S., Anderson, J. A., Mututua, R. S., Warutere, J. K., Siodi, I. L., … Tung, J. (2022). Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study. Science (New York, N.Y.), 377(6606), 635–641. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm4917
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    • Björk, J. R., Dasari, M. R., Roche, K., Grieneisen, L., Gould, T. J., Grenier, J.-C., … Archie, E. A. (2022). Synchrony and idiosyncrasy in the gut microbiome of wild baboons. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(7), 955–964. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01773-4
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    • Anderson, J. A., & Tung, J. (2022). The biology of beauty sleep. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(4), 351–352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01683-5
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    • Galezo, A. A., Nolas, M. A., Fogel, A. S., Mututua, R. S., Warutere, J. K., Siodi, I. L., … Alberts, S. C. (2022). Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate. Current Biology : Cb, 32(7), 1607-1615.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.082
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    • Anderson, J. A., Lea, A. J., Voyles, T. N., Akinyi, M. Y., Nyakundi, R., Ochola, L., … Tung, J. (2022). Distinct gene regulatory signatures of dominance rank and social bond strength in wild baboons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1845), 20200441. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0441
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    • Simons, N. D., Michopoulos, V., Wilson, M., Barreiro, L. B., & Tung, J. (2022). Agonism and grooming behaviour explain social status effects on physiology and gene regulation in rhesus macaques. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1845), 20210132. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0132
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    • Fogel, A. S., McLean, E. M., Gordon, J. B., Archie, E. A., Tung, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2021). Genetic ancestry predicts male-female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone. Animal Behaviour, 180, 249–268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.009
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    • Lea, A. J., Akinyi, M. Y., Nyakundi, R., Mareri, P., Nyundo, F., Kariuki, T., … Tung, J. (2021). Erratum: Dominance rank-associated gene expression is widespread, sex-specific, and a precursor to high social status in wild male baboons (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2018) 115 (E12163–E12171) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811967115). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(36). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114104118
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    • Johnston, R. A., Rheinwald, J. G., vonHoldt, B. M., Stahler, D. R., Lowry, W., Tung, J., & Wayne, R. K. (2021). K Locus Effects in Gray Wolves: Experimental Assessment of TLR3 Signaling and the Gene Expression Response to Canine Distemper Virus. The Journal of Heredity, 112(5), 458–468. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab029
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    • Miller, C. M., Snyder-Mackler, N., Nguyen, N., Fashing, P. J., Tung, J., Wroblewski, E. E., … Wilson, M. L. (2021). Extragroup paternity in gelada monkeys, Theropithecus gelada, at Guassa, Ethiopia and a comparison with other primates. Animal Behaviour, 177, 277–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.008
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    • Anderson, J. A., & Tung, J. (2021). Sparrows and supergenes: Ecological epigenetics in action. Molecular Ecology, 30(14), 3391–3393. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16028
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    • Grieneisen, L., Dasari, M., Gould, T. J., Björk, J. R., Grenier, J.-C., Yotova, V., … Blekhman, R. (2021). Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent. Science (New York, N.Y.), 373(6551), 181–186. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba5483
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    • Colchero, F., Aburto, J. M., Archie, E. A., Boesch, C., Breuer, T., Campos, F. A., … Alberts, S. C. (2021). The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis. Nature Communications, 12(1), 3666. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3
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    • Anderson, J. A., Johnston, R. A., Lea, A. J., Campos, F. A., Voyles, T. N., Akinyi, M. Y., … Tung, J. (2021). High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons. Elife, 10, e66128. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.66128
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    • Campos, F. A., Archie, E. A., Gesquiere, L. R., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2021). Glucocorticoid exposure predicts survival in female baboons. Science Advances, 7(17), eabf6759. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf6759
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    • Gogarten, J. F., Rühlemann, M., Archie, E., Tung, J., Akoua-Koffi, C., Bang, C., … Calvignac-Spencer, S. (2021). Primate phageomes are structured by superhost phylogeny and environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(15), e2013535118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013535118
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    • Johnston, R. A., Vullioud, P., Thorley, J., Kirveslahti, H., Shen, L., Mukherjee, S., … Tung, J. (2021). Morphological and genomic shifts in mole-rat 'queens' increase fecundity but reduce skeletal integrity. Elife, 10, e65760. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.65760
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    • Weibel, C. J., Tung, J., Alberts, S. C., & Archie, E. A. (2020). Accelerated reproduction is not an adaptive response to early-life adversity in wild baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(40), 24909–24919. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004018117
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    • Sanz, J., Maurizio, P. L., Snyder-Mackler, N., Simons, N. D., Voyles, T., Kohn, J., … Barreiro, L. B. (2020). Social history and exposure to pathogen signals modulate social status effects on gene regulation in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(38), 23317–23322. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820846116
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    • Anderson, J. A., Vilgalys, T. P., & Tung, J. (2020). Broadening primate genomics: new insights into the ecology and evolution of primate gene regulation. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 62, 16–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2020.05.009
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Burger, J. R., Gaydosh, L., Belsky, D. W., Noppert, G. A., Campos, F. A., … Tung, J. (2020). Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6493), eaax9553. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9553
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    • Fan, Y., Vilgalys, T. P., Sun, S., Peng, Q., Tung, J., & Zhou, X. (2019). IMAGE: high-powered detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation using integrated methylation QTL mapping and allele-specific analysis. Genome Biology, 20(1), 220. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1813-1
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    • Simons, N. D., & Tung, J. (2019). Social Status and Gene Regulation: Conservation and Context Dependence in Primates. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 722–725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.003
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    • Zipple, M. N., Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2019). Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons. Elife, 8. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47433.001
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    • Zipple, M. N., Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2019). Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons. Elife, 8, e47433. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.47433
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    • Turan, Z. G., Parvizi, P., Dönertaş, H. M., Tung, J., Khaitovich, P., & Somel, M. (2019). Molecular footprint of Medawar's mutation accumulation process in mammalian aging. Aging Cell, 18(4), e12965. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12965
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    • Devoto, A. E., Santini, J. M., Olm, M. R., Anantharaman, K., Munk, P., Tung, J., … Banfield, J. F. (2019). Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes. Nature Microbiology, 4(4), 693–700. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0338-9
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    • Grieneisen, L. E., Charpentier, M. J. E., Alberts, S. C., Blekhman, R., Bradburd, G., Tung, J., & Archie, E. A. (2019). Genes, geology and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 286(1901), 20190431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0431
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    • Vilgalys, T. P., Rogers, J., Jolly, C. J., Mukherjee, S., & Tung, J. (2019). Evolution of DNA Methylation in Papio Baboons. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(3), 527–540. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy227
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    • Wango, T. L., Musiega, D., Mundia, C. N., Altmann, J., Alberts, S. C., & Tung, J. (2019). Climate and Land Cover Analysis Suggest No Strong Ecological Barriers to Gene Flow in a Natural Baboon Hybrid Zone. International Journal of Primatology, 40(1), 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-017-9989-2
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    • Debray, R., Snyder-Mackler, N., Kohn, J. N., Wilson, M. E., Barreiro, L. B., & Tung, J. (2019). Social affiliation predicts mitochondrial DNA copy number in female rhesus macaques. Biology Letters, 15(1), 20180643. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0643
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Sanz, J., Kohn, J. N., Voyles, T., Pique-Regi, R., Wilson, M. E., … Tung, J. (2019). Social status alters chromatin accessibility and the gene regulatory response to glucocorticoid stimulation in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(4), 1219–1228. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811758115
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Voyles, T., & Tung, J. (2019). Generating RNA Baits for Capture-Based Enrichment. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1963, 107–120. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_12
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    • Walker, J. A., Jordan, V. E., Storer, J. M., Steely, C. J., Gonzalez-Quiroga, P., Beckstrom, T. O., … Batzer, M. A. (2019). Alu insertion polymorphisms shared by Papio baboons and Theropithecus gelada reveal an intertwined common ancestry. Mobile Dna, 10, 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-019-0187-y
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    • Rogers, J., Raveendran, M., Harris, R. A., Mailund, T., Leppälä, K., Athanasiadis, G., … Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium, . (2019). The comparative genomics and complex population history of Papio baboons. Science Advances, 5(1), eaau6947. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau6947
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    • Lea, A. J., Vockley, C. M., Johnston, R. A., Del Carpio, C. A., Barreiro, L. B., Reddy, T. E., & Tung, J. (2018). Genome-wide quantification of the effects of DNA methylation on human gene regulation. Elife, 7. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37513
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    • Lea, A. J., Akinyi, M. Y., Nyakundi, R., Mareri, P., Nyundo, F., Kariuki, T., … Tung, J. (2018). Dominance rank-associated gene expression is widespread, sex-specific, and a precursor to high social status in wild male baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(52), E12163–E12171. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811967115
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    • Lea, A., Akinyi, M., Nyakundi, R., Mareri, P., Nyundo, F., Kariuki, T., … Tung, J. (2018). Dominance rank-associated immune gene expression is widespread, sex-specific, and a precursor to high social status in wild male baboons. https://doi.org/10.1101/366021
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    • Tung, J., & Barreiro, L. B. (2017). The contribution of admixture to primate evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 47, 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2017.08.010
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    • Grieneisen, L. E., Livermore, J., Alberts, S., Tung, J., & Archie, E. A. (2017). Group Living and Male Dispersal Predict the Core Gut Microbiome in Wild Baboons. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 57(4), 770–785. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx046
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    • Steely, C. J., Walker, J. A., Jordan, V. E., Beckstrom, T. O., McDaniel, C. L., St Romain, C. P., … Batzer, M. A. (2017). Alu Insertion Polymorphisms as Evidence for Population Structure in Baboons. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(9), 2418–2427. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx184
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    • Lea, A. J., Vilgalys, T. P., Durst, P. A. P., & Tung, J. (2017). Maximizing ecological and evolutionary insight in bisulfite sequencing data sets. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(8), 1074–1083. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0229-0
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., & Tung, J. (2017). Vasopressin and the Neurogenetics of Parental Care. Neuron, 95(1), 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.027
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    • Sun, S., Hood, M., Scott, L., Peng, Q., Mukherjee, S., Tung, J., & Zhou, X. (2017). Differential expression analysis for RNAseq using Poisson mixed models. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(11), e106. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx204
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    • Lea, A. J., Tung, J., Archie, E. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2017). Developmental plasticity: Bridging research in evolution and human health. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2017(1), 162–175. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox019
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    • Lea, A. J., Tung, J., Archie, E. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2017). Developmental plasticity research in evolution and human health: Response to commentaries. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2017(1), 201–205. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoy007
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    • Miller, E. A., Livermore, J. A., Alberts, S. C., Tung, J., & Archie, E. A. (2017). Ovarian cycling and reproductive state shape the vaginal microbiota in wild baboons. Microbiome, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0228-z
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    • Kohn, J. N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Barreiro, L. B., Johnson, Z. P., Tung, J., & Wilson, M. E. (2016). Dominance rank causally affects personality and glucocorticoid regulation in female rhesus macaques. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 74, 179–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.09.005
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Sanz, J., Kohn, J. N., Brinkworth, J. F., Morrow, S., Shaver, A. O., … Tung, J. (2016). Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques. Science (New York, N.Y.), 354(6315), 1041–1045. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah3580
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    • Nédélec, Y., Sanz, J., Baharian, G., Szpiech, Z. A., Pacis, A., Dumaine, A., … Barreiro, L. B. (2016). Genetic Ancestry and Natural Selection Drive Population Differences in Immune Responses to Pathogens. Cell, 167(3), 657-669.e21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.025
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    • Charruau, P., Johnston, R. A., Stahler, D. R., Lea, A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Smith, D. W., … Wayne, R. K. (2016). Pervasive Effects of Aging on Gene Expression in Wild Wolves. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(8), 1967–1978. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw072
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    • Blekhman, R., Tang, K., Archie, E. A., Barreiro, L. B., Johnson, Z. P., Wilson, M. E., … Tung, J. (2016). Common methods for fecal sample storage in field studies yield consistent signatures of individual identity in microbiome sequencing data. Scientific Reports, 6, 31519. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep31519
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    • Wall, J. D., Schlebusch, S. A., Alberts, S. C., Cox, L. A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Nevonen, K. A., … Tung, J. (2016). Genomewide ancestry and divergence patterns from low-coverage sequencing data reveal a complex history of admixture in wild baboons. Molecular Ecology, 25(14), 3469–3483. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13684
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Majoros, W. H., Yuan, M. L., Shaver, A. O., Gordon, J. B., Kopp, G. H., … Tung, J. (2016). Efficient Genome-Wide Sequencing and Low-Coverage Pedigree Analysis from Noninvasively Collected Samples. Genetics, 203(2), 699–714. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187492
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    • Tung, J., Archie, E. A., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2016). Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons. Nat Commun, 7.
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    • Lea, A. J., Altmann, J., Alberts, S. C., & Tung, J. (2016). Resource base influences genome-wide DNA methylation levels in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1681–1696. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13436
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Kohn, J. N., Barreiro, L. B., Johnson, Z. P., Wilson, M. E., & Tung, J. (2016). Social status drives social relationships in groups of unrelated female rhesus macaques. Animal Behaviour, 111, 307–317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.10.033
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    • Archie, E. A., & Tung, J. (2015). Social behavior and the microbiome. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 6, 28–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.07.008
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    • Pacis, A., Tailleux, L., Morin, A. M., Lambourne, J., MacIsaac, J. L., Yotova, V., … Barreiro, L. B. (2015). Bacterial infection remodels the DNA methylation landscape of human dendritic cells. Genome Research, 25(12), 1801–1811. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.192005.115
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    • Lea, A. J., Tung, J., & Zhou, X. (2015). A Flexible, Efficient Binomial Mixed Model for Identifying Differential DNA Methylation in Bisulfite Sequencing Data. Plos Genetics, 11(11), e1005650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005650
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    • Franz, M., McLean, E., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2015). Self-organizing dominance hierarchies in a wild primate population. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 282(1814), 20151512. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1512
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    • Lea, A. J., Altmann, J., Alberts, S. C., & Tung, J. (2015). Developmental constraints in a wild primate. The American Naturalist, 185(6), 809–821. https://doi.org/10.1086/681016
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    • Tung, J., Barreiro, L. B., Burns, M. B., Grenier, J.-C., Lynch, J., Grieneisen, L. E., … Archie, E. A. (2015). Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. Elife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.05224
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    • Tung, J., Zhou, X., Alberts, S. C., Stephens, M., & Gilad, Y. (2015). The genetic architecture of gene expression levels in wild baboons. Elife, 4. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.04729
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    • Galbany, J., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2015). Canine length in wild male baboons: maturation, aging and social dominance rank. Plos One, 10(5), e0126415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126415
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Somel, M., & Tung, J. (2014). Shared signatures of social stress and aging in peripheral blood mononuclear cell gene expression profiles. Aging Cell, 13(5), 954–957. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12239
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    • Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Clark, M., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2014). Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships predict survival in wild female baboons. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 281(1793), 20141261. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1261
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    • Gallego Romero, I., Pai, A. A., Tung, J., & Gilad, Y. (2014). RNA-seq: impact of RNA degradation on transcript quantification. Bmc Biology, 12, 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-42
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    • Tung, J., & Gilad, Y. (2013). Social environmental effects on gene regulation. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 70(22), 4323–4339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-013-1357-6
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    • Barreiro, L. B., & Tung, J. (2012). Getting under—and through—the skin: ecological genomics of chytridiomycosis infection in frogs. Molecular Ecology, 21(13), 3095–3097. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05624.x
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    • Tung, J., Charpentier, M. J. E., Mukherjee, S., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2012). Genetic effects on mating success and partner choice in a social mammal. The American Naturalist, 180(1), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.1086/665993
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    • Tung, J., Barreiro, L. B., Johnson, Z. P., Hansen, K. D., Michopoulos, V., Toufexis, D., … Gilad, Y. (2012). Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(17), 6490–6495. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202734109
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    • Charpentier, M. J. E., Fontaine, M. C., Cherel, E., Renoult, J. P., Jenkins, T., Benoit, L., … Tung, J. (2012). Genetic structure in a dynamic baboon hybrid zone corroborates behavioural observations in a hybrid population. Molecular Ecology, 21(3), 715–731. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05302.x
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    • Akinyi, M. Y., Tung, J., Jenneby, M., Patel, N. B., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2012). Role of grooming in reducing tick load in wild baboons (Papio cynocephalus) (Accepted). Animal Behaviour.
    • Babbitt, C. C., Tung, J., Wray, G. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2012). Changes in gene expression associated with reproductive maturation in wild female baboons. Genome Biology and Evolution, 4(2), 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evr134
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    • Harper, K. N., Fyumagwa, R. D., Hoare, R., Wambura, P. N., Coppenhaver, D. H., Sapolsky, R. M., … Knauf, S. (2012). Treponema pallidum infection in the wild baboons of East Africa: distribution and genetic characterization of the strains responsible. Plos One, 7(12), e50882. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050882
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    • Tung, J., Akinyi, M. Y., Mutura, S., Altmann, J., Wray, G. A., & Alberts, S. C. (2011). Allele-specific gene expression in a wild nonhuman primate population. Molecular Ecology, 20(4), 725–739. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04970.x
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    • Tung, J., Alberts, S. C., & Wray, G. A. (2010). Evolutionary genetics in wild primates: combining genetic approaches with field studies of natural populations. Trends in Genetics : Tig, 26(8), 353–362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2010.05.005
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    • Tung, J., & Wray, G. A. (2009). Evolution of Traits Deduced from Genome Comparisons. Els. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0021746
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    • Tung, J., Fédrigo, O., Haygood, R., Mukherjee, S., & Wray, G. A. (2009). Genomic features that predict allelic imbalance in humans suggest patterns of constraint on gene expression variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26(9), 2047–2059. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msp113
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    • Tung, J., Primus, A., Bouley, A. J., Severson, T. F., Alberts, S. C., & Wray, G. A. (2009). Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates. Nature, 460(7253), 388–391. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08149
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    • Leonhardt, S. D., Tung, J., Camden, J. B., Leal, M., & Drea, C. M. (2009). Seeing red: Behavioral evidence of trichromatic color vision in strepsirrhine primates. Behavioral Ecology, 20(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn106
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    • Charpentier, M. J. E., Tung, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2008). Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. Molecular Ecology, 17(8), 2026–2040. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03724.x
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    • Tung, J., Charpentier, M. J. E., Garfield, D. A., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2008). Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population. Molecular Ecology, 17(8), 1998–2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03723.x
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    • Tung, J., Rudolph, J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2007). Parallel effects of genetic variation in ACE activity in baboons and humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 134(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20614
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  • Book Sections

    • Tung, J. (2014). Genes revisited: The biodemography of social environmental variation through a functional genomics lens. In Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography: A Collection of Papers (pp. 39–64). https://doi.org/10.17226/18822
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    • Tung, J., & Loisel, D. A. (2013). Genetic variation in the immune system of old world monkeys: functional and selective effects. In J. Brinkworth & E. Pechenkina (Eds.), Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution. Springer Verlag.

  • Conference Papers

    • Archie, E. A., Tung, J., Blekhman, R., Barreiro, L., Grieneisen, L., Alberts, S. C., & Altmann, J. (2017). Socially structured gut microbiomes in wild baboons. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 57, pp. E194–E194). New Orleans, LA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
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    • Miller, C. M., Snyder-Mackler, N., Nga, N., Fashing, P. J., Tung, J., Gustison, M. L., & Wilson, M. L. (2016). Male reproductive strategies and paternity success in the multilevel social system of gelada monkeys from Guassa, Menz Highlands, Ethiopia. In American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Vol. 159, pp. 230–230). Atlanta, GA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
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    • Snyder-Mackler, N., Kohn, J., Moore, C., Johnson, Z. P., Wilson, M. E., & Tung, J. (2015). Dominance rank and rank disparity predict female rhesus macaque social relationships even in the absence of kin networks. In American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Vol. 156, pp. 293–293). St Louis, MO: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
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    • Tung, J. (2014). INSIGHTS FROM PRIMATE MODELS FOR HUMAN SOCIALITY: SYNERGIES BETWEEN STUDIES IN CAPTIVITY AND THE FIELD. In American Journal of Primatology (Vol. 76, pp. 47–47). Decatur, GA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
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    • Tung, J., Lea, A. J., Altmann, J., & Alberts, S. C. (2014). Social and ecological predictors of DNA methylation in wild baboons. In American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Vol. 153, pp. 256–256). Calgary, CANADA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
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    • Tung, J., Alberts, S. C., & Wray, G. A. (2010). Evolution of functional genetic variation at immune loci in wild baboons. In American Journal of Physical Anthropology (pp. 231–231). Albuquerque, NM: WILEY-LISS.
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  • Theses and Dissertations

    • Tung, J. (n.d.). Functional and Evolutionary Genetics of a Wild Baboon Population.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • EVANTH 702S: Concepts in Evolutionary Anthropology 2022
  • BIOLOGY 293: Research Independent Study 2021
  • EVANTH 212FS: Evolution, Society, and Health in Comparative Perspective 2021
  • EVANTH 393: Research Independent Study 2021
  • GENOME 212FS: Evolution, Society, and Health in Comparative Perspective 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Behavior, gene regulation and the evolutionary genetics of Old World monkeys. November 1, 2013  2013
  • The epigenetic signature of socioecology in wild baboons. September 7, 2013  2013
  • Social regulation of gene expression in captive and wild primates.. April 29, 2013  2013
  • Evolutionary genetics and gene regulation in Old World monkeys. December 6, 2012  2012
  • Behavior, life history and gene regulation in nonhuman primates. October 30, 2012  2012
  • Social and ecological effects on genetic structure and gene expression. October 24, 2012  2012
  • Genomic effects of social stress and their relationship to gene regulatory changes during aging. October 19, 2012  2012
  • Genomic effects of social stress and their relationship to gene regulatory changes during aging. October 16, 2012  2012
  • Dramatic effects of social behavior on gene regulation in Old World monkeys.. August 16, 2012  2012
  • Gene regulation and aging across the life course: exploring the mechanistic underpinnings of social and life history effects on health and physiology. June 7, 2012  2012
  • Social and ecological effects on genetic structure and gene expression. June 4, 2012  2012
  • Stress and the genome: social effects on gene regulation in a nonhuman primate model for social status. May 11, 2012  2012
  • Gene regulatory changes in primates. January 24, 2012  2012
  • Social regulation of gene expression in rhesus macaques. December 13, 2011  2011
  • Social and ecological effects on gene expression. December 7, 2011  2011
  • Genetic background influences mating behavior in wild baboons. October 12, 2010  2010
  • Evolution of functional genetic variation at immune loci in wild baboons. February 11, 2010  2010
  • Evolutionary genetics in natural primate populations: lessons from wild baboons. February 11, 2010  2010
  • Gene expression variation in the immune system of primates. February 11, 2010  2010
  • Socially mediated gene-environment interactions in wild baboons.. February 11, 2010  2010
  • Before and after the swarm: behavioral, genetic, and life history implications of hybridization in wild baboons. February 11, 2009  2009
  • Genetic, behavioral, and life history implications of hybridization in wild baboons. February 11, 2009  2009
  • Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates. February 11, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Organizer of Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics session : Biology of Genomes conference. November 1, 2013  2013
  • Reviewer for the Leakey Foundation; National Geographic Society; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology; Biology Letters; Emerging Infectious Diseases; E. 2009 - 2013  2009 - 2013

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