Jenny Tung
@jennytung.bsky.social
Scientist @ the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Duke University
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Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬
Please email for details.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬
Please email for details.
Please email for details.
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A PhD Position! Aim is to use pop-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials. Work with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social + Joanne Santini - two creative scientists who are also very fun to work with!
tinyurl.com/phagehunt
tinyurl.com/phagehunt
Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A PhD Position! Aim is to use pop-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials. Work with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social + Joanne Santini - two creative scientists who are also very fun to work with!
tinyurl.com/phagehunt
tinyurl.com/phagehunt
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Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Two weeks ago now @jennytung.bsky.social and I published a new review in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, entitled “Evolutionary genetics meets ecological immunology: insights into the evolution of immune systems.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Evolutionary genetics meets ecological immunology: insights into the evolution of immune systems
Immune genes show remarkably consistent evidence of selection, modification, and diversification across the tree of life. Parasites are a key force in…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Two weeks ago now @jennytung.bsky.social and I published a new review in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, entitled “Evolutionary genetics meets ecological immunology: insights into the evolution of immune systems.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
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My center at NYU SoM is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in human genetics and genomics. It's a wonderful place to do science. Please apply or pass along. apply.interfolio.com/177375
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November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My center at NYU SoM is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in human genetics and genomics. It's a wonderful place to do science. Please apply or pass along. apply.interfolio.com/177375
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🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
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Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why women live longer than men
Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men
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October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
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September 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
Deadline to apply September 30.
Reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/172496
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Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...
Available iCASE projects | Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme
iCASE projects for academic year 2026-2027 line_divider.png Project: Understanding cellulose digestion by cryo-EM structure of cellulose microfibril-enzyme complexes Project reference: ICS-BIO-PD26 S...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...
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📢New Publication Alert 📢
I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published:
“Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”.
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published:
“Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”.
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons - Animal Microbiome
Background Animals coexist with complex microbiota, including bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes (e.g., fungi, protists, and helminths). While high-throughput sequencing is commonly used to characteriz...
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📢New Publication Alert 📢
I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published:
“Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”.
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published:
“Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”.
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards!
Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!
www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!
www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📢Applications are OPEN for our Pilot awards!
Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!
www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
Individual or mentored projects available with up to $20,000 in total costs! Read the full RFA and apply at the link below!
www.animalsocialaging-network.org/funding/pilo...
@smacklab.bsky.social @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
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Postdoc opportunity! At National Genomics Infrastructure in Uppsala we're looking for a postdoc in genomics R&D. Cutting-edge methods dev in an excellent, international environment at the junction between academia and infrastructure. Deadline May 23!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University
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May 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Postdoc opportunity! At National Genomics Infrastructure in Uppsala we're looking for a postdoc in genomics R&D. Cutting-edge methods dev in an excellent, international environment at the junction between academia and infrastructure. Deadline May 23!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Elegant new theory on polygenic adaptation by Will Milligan, Laura Heyward, and Guy Sella.
When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654234v1
May 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Elegant new theory on polygenic adaptation by Will Milligan, Laura Heyward, and Guy Sella.
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Our NIA funded High Priority Research network on Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging just landed on Bsky @animalsocaging.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs
www.animalsocialaging-network.org
@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs
www.animalsocialaging-network.org
@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Our NIA funded High Priority Research network on Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging just landed on Bsky @animalsocaging.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs
www.animalsocialaging-network.org
@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
- follow us for updates and new RFAs
www.animalsocialaging-network.org
@smacklab.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social
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Come join us at the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University. Tenure track/associate professor position available with application deadline June 1, 2025. Application details here: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
May 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Come join us at the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University. Tenure track/associate professor position available with application deadline June 1, 2025. Application details here: international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Last call—hiring for my lab moving to UCLA!
Project scientist in computational population genetics (post PhD/postdoc experience usually expected). recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10171
March 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Last call—hiring for my lab moving to UCLA!
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Michael Yuan is recruiting graduate students and potential postdocs to join his new evolutionary ecology lab at TCU in Fort Worth (www.myuanlab.com). He has funds to fully support PhD students starting both this fall 2025 and fall 2026. Please RT.
Yuan Evolutionary Ecology Lab
www.myuanlab.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Michael Yuan is recruiting graduate students and potential postdocs to join his new evolutionary ecology lab at TCU in Fort Worth (www.myuanlab.com). He has funds to fully support PhD students starting both this fall 2025 and fall 2026. Please RT.
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So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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There's still time to submit an abstract to the legendary Biology of Genomes meeting! Come and present your work alongside the stellar lineup of invited speakers and keynotes. #BOG25
The 2025 Biology of Genomes abstract deadline is this Friday, February 14th! Register here to submit your abstract: bit.ly/3QeK7p1 #BOG25🧬 @tuuliel.bsky.social @aaronquinlan.bsky.social
Biology of Genomes
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
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February 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There's still time to submit an abstract to the legendary Biology of Genomes meeting! Come and present your work alongside the stellar lineup of invited speakers and keynotes. #BOG25
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!
January 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!