EPPIcenter Seminar: Courtney Murdock - The Role of the Environment in Vector-borne Disease Transmission

A main driver of vector-borne disease transmission is the ecology of the insect vector. Changes in climate and land use alter ecological relationships insect vectors have with their hosts and pathogens, resulting in shifts in transmission. The research in the Murdock lab applies ecological and evolutionary theory to better understand the host-vector-pathogen interaction, key environmental drivers of transmission, and how environmental change will affect vector-borne disease transmission and control.

Dr Courtney Murdock is an Associate Professor, Department of Entomology at Cornell, with expertise in ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, eco-immunology, life history, mosquito-borne disease transmission, mosquito-pathogen interactions, medical entomology, experimental and field studies, statistical and mechanistic modeling. She earned her Ph.D. in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Michigan. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the departments of biology and entomology at Pennsylvania State University before taking a joint appointment in the department of infectious diseases in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine and the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. In 2020 she moved to the Department of Entomology at Cornell University.

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