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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 Grants


Gene regulation and social relationships across the life course in a nonhuman primate model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

Behavior and Physiology in Aging

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2015 - 2025

Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2020 - 2025

Stress and the Genome: Testing the Impact of Social Effects on Gene Regulation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2024

Social disadvantage and immune gene expression in an urban US population

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2023

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Adaptive introgression and its phenotypic consequences in naturally hybridizing baboons

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Genetic and evolutionary determinants of the immune response in wild baboons

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2023

Early adversity and DNA methylation in a primate model of stress and development.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023

Evolutionary genetics of the immune response in wild baboons

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by L.S.B. Leakey Foundation · 2021 - 2022

Phenotypic transitions in cooperative societies: an evolutionary and molecular approach

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization · 2017 - 2021

Quantifying the genome-wide functional consequences of DNA methylation associated with early life adversity.

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021

HARDAC-M: Enabling memory-intensive computation for genomics

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2020 - 2021

Quantifying the genomic consequences of chronic social stress for accelerated aging

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2021

Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Award

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · 2016 - 2020

Genetics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Leveraging natural hybridization to understand the evolution of primate gene regulation.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2020

RAPID: Physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying breeder-specific skeletal growth in a highly cooperative mammal

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

Gene regulatory analysis of social integration and resilience during aging

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2017

HARDAC+:Reproducible HPC for next-generation genomics

EquipmentMajor User · 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

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2017

EAGER: New Methods for Genomic Analysis of Noninvasive Samples

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2017

Epigenetic Consequences of Social Status across the Life Span in a Primate Model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2016

Genetic and Behavioral Predictors of Susceptibility to Social Stress

FellowshipCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2015

Novel Integration of Multidimensional Data from an Emerging Model of Aging

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2015

Mechanisms and Consequences of Social Connectedness in a Wild Primate Population

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2015

Statistical Models to Investigate Long-Distance QTL Transcription Regulation

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2015

Collaborative Research: Genes, environment and gene expression in a wild primate population

ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2013

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Genetic Variation and Gene Expression in Wild Baboons

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2009

External Relationships


  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  • Institute of Primate Research
  • Kenya Wildlife Service
  • Max Planck Society Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
  • National Museums of Kenya
  • University of Leipzig
  • University of Nairobi
  • Wildlife Research and Training Institute

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