

Associate Professor Courtney Murdock
Courtney C. Murdock is currently an associate professor in the Department of Entomology at Cornell University (2020-present). She received a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Spanish literature at the University of Michigan (1997-2001). She then went on to pursue a PhD in disease ecology in the School of Natural Resources and Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan (2002-2009). Murdock was a post-doc in the Departments of Biology and Entomology at Pennsylvania State University (2009-2014), after which she joined University of Georgia as an assistant professor in the department Infectious Diseases and the Odum School of Ecology (2015-2020). A consistent theme of Murdock’s research program has been the application of ecological and evolutionary theory to inform our understanding of mosquito-borne disease transmission, as well as our disease management strategies. Research conducted in Murdock’s group typically spans multiple scales of ecological organization (from within-host processes up to population and community-level dynamics) involving a combination of carefully designed, rigorous experiments in the lab and under semi-field conditions, with field studies and modeling to provide insight into relevant mechanisms driving mosquito-borne disease transmission in the field.
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