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Jenny Tung

Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology
Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708
08 Bio Sci, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Behavior, gene regulation and the evolutionary genetics of Old World monkeys · November 1, 2013 Lecture University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
The epigenetic signature of socioecology in wild baboons · September 7, 2013 Lecture Behavior and Neurogenetics of Nonhuman Primates meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Social regulation of gene expression in captive and wild primates. · April 29, 2013 Lecture University of Arizona Program in Comparative Genomics, Tucson, AZ
Evolutionary genetics and gene regulation in Old World monkeys · December 6, 2012 Lecture New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York City, NY
Behavior, life history and gene regulation in nonhuman primates · October 30, 2012 Lecture Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Social and ecological effects on genetic structure and gene expression · October 24, 2012 Lecture Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
Genomic effects of social stress and their relationship to gene regulatory changes during aging · October 19, 2012 Lecture Max Planck Society - Chinese Academy of Sciences Partner Institute for Computation Biology, Shanghai, China
Genomic effects of social stress and their relationship to gene regulatory changes during aging · October 16, 2012 Lecture Advances in Methodology and Applications: Bio-demography and Multistate Event History Analysis on Healthy Aging, Beijing, China
Dramatic effects of social behavior on gene regulation in Old World monkeys. · August 16, 2012 Lecture International Primatological Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico
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 Lecture Evolutionary Demography Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Social and ecological effects on genetic structure and gene expression · June 4, 2012 Lecture Institute of Primate Research, Nairobi, Kenya
Stress and the genome: social effects on gene regulation in a nonhuman primate model for social status · May 11, 2012 Lecture Biology of Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Gene regulatory changes in primates · January 24, 2012 Lecture Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Social regulation of gene expression in rhesus macaques · December 13, 2011 Lecture University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Social and ecological effects on gene expression · December 7, 2011 Lecture Göttinger Freilandtage: Behavioral Constraints and Flexibility, Gottingen, Germany
Genetic background influences mating behavior in wild baboons · October 12, 2010 Lecture Social Systems: Demographic and Genetic Issues, Paimpont, France
Socially mediated gene-environment interactions in wild baboons. · February 11, 2010 Lecture Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on Genes & Behavior, Ventura, California
Evolution of functional genetic variation at immune loci in wild baboons · February 11, 2010 Lecture American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Evolutionary genetics in natural primate populations: lessons from wild baboons · February 11, 2010 Lecture Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Gene expression variation in the immune system of primates · February 11, 2010 Lecture Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Before and after the swarm: behavioral, genetic, and life history implications of hybridization in wild baboons · February 11, 2009 Lecture Hybridization in Primates Symposium, Göttingen
Genetic, behavioral, and life history implications of hybridization in wild baboons · February 11, 2009 Lecture Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting, Iowa City, IA
Evolution of a malaria resistance gene in wild primates · February 11, 2008 Lecture Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

Service to the Profession


Organizer of Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics session : Biology of Genomes conference · November 1, 2013 Event/Organization Administration Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Reviewer for the Leakey Foundation; National Geographic Society; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology; Biology Letters; Emerging Infectious Diseases; E · 2009 - 2013 Editorial Activities