{"id":2317,"date":"2012-08-14T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med-cgibd.sites.unc.edu\/center-members\/ting-jenny\/"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:54:26","slug":"ting-jenny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/ting-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Ting, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.07%;vertical-align: top\"><span class=\"imageBorder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline\" title=\"Ting, Jenny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/466\/2017\/10\/ting-jenny.jpeg\" alt=\"Ting, Jenny\" width=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"smallFont\">\n<h4>Contact Information<\/h4>\n<p>207 Lineberger Cancer Res<br \/>\n450 West Drive<br \/>\nCampus Box 7295<br \/>\nChapel Hill, NC 27599<br \/>\n(O) 919 966-5538<br \/>\n<a class=\"email-link\" title=\"\" href=\"mailto:jenny_ting@med.unc.edu\" target=\"_self\">jenny_ting@med.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Website Links<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"pub\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Ting+JP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.92%\" valign=\"top\"><span class=\"largeFont\"><strong><span class=\"blue\">William Rand Kenan Professor<br \/>\nDept. of Genetics<br \/>\nDirector, Center for Translational Immunology<br \/>\nSchool of Medicine<br \/>\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Research Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jenny Ting studies innate immune sensors and receptors and their roles in infection, cancer and inflammation. Her group first described the human NLR gene family to include a few known and sixteen new genes. She has studied the divergent roles of this family and has uncovered their roles in transcriptional activation, cytokine processing, cell death and autophagy. Her group was among the first to show the unexpected finding that NLRP3, ASC and caspase 1\/11 protected against colitis and colitis-associated colon cancer. She also showed that these same players can activate an inflammatory response to a high fat diet, specifically in response to saturated fatty acid. A number of NLRs referred to as \u201cinhibitory NLRs\u201d, serve as negative regulators of cell signaling pathways such as NFkB, MAPK and STAT. Interestingly these proteins play an anti-inflammatory role by keeping in check a signaling threshold, thus preventing inflammatory diseases.\u00a0 With translational and clinical relevance in mind, her group has published several papers indicating that while expression of the inflammasome NLRs is enhanced in inflammatory conditions, the expression of inhibitory NLRs (iNLR\u2019s) \u00a0is decreased, which is consistent with their negative regulatory functions. Recently they have linked iNLRs and the maintenance of a protective microbiome, and have shown that specific bacteria can mediate anti-inflammatory functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance of Research to CGIBD Mission: <\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Ting\u2019s lab has conducted important research on the NLR gene family. Members of this family protect against colitis and colitis associated colon cancer. She is an active collaborator with a number of CGIBD members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CGIBD Focus Area(s):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Microbiome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborators:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Allbritton, Herfarth, Lemon, Miao, Sartor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"smallFont\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Information 207 Lineberger Cancer Res 450 West Drive Campus Box 7295 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (O) 919 966-5538 jenny_ting@med.unc.edu Website Links PubMed William Rand Kenan Professor Dept. of Genetics Director, Center for Translational Immunology School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Summary Jenny Ting studies innate immune sensors and receptors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/ting-jenny\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jenny Ting, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10853,"featured_media":4747,"parent":0,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2317","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jenny Ting, PhD | Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/ting-jenny\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jenny Ting, PhD | Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Contact Information 207 Lineberger Cancer Res 450 West Drive Campus Box 7295 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (O) 919 966-5538 jenny_ting@med.unc.edu Website Links PubMed William Rand Kenan Professor Dept. of Genetics Director, Center for Translational Immunology School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research Summary Jenny Ting studies innate immune sensors and receptors &hellip; 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