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Courtney Murdock

Location: 518 Mueller Lab/ 111 Merkle Lab
Telephone: +1 814 865 3052/ 865-1024
Email: Courtney Murdock
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JOBS:
Pennsylvania State University (2009 - present)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology.

University of Michigan (2002-2009)
Ph.D. student, Department of Natural Resources Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Infectious Disease.

University of Michigan School of Public Health (2006-2008)
NIH training grant Fellow, Department of Epidemiology Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

 

DEGREES:
Ph.D. Natural Resources (2009), University of Michigan
B.S. in Biology, minor in Spanish literature (2002), University of Michigan

 

Publications

Murdock, C. C., Olival, K. J., and S. L. Perkins. (in press). Molecular identification of host feeding patterns of snow-melt mosquitoes: potential implications for the transmission ecology of Jamestown Canyon Virus. Journal of Medical Entomology.

Murdock, C., Dietz, M., Romero, L. M., Low, B., and J. Foufopoulos (in review). Effects of food availability and parasitism on stress and immune response in song birds. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Murdock, C. and C. Simon (soon to be submitted). A transmission model for the ecology of an avian malarial parasite in a temperate ecosystem, Ecology.

Murdock, C. C., Adler, P. H., and S. L. Perkins. (soon to be submitted) Molecular analyses on host-seeking black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) reveal a diverse community of Leucocytozoon (Apicomplexa: Hemosporida) parasites. Molecular Ecology.

Murdock, C. C., Adler, P. H., and M. L. Wilson. (soon to be submitted). Habitat and seasonal distributions of avian and dipteran populations breeding in a temperate, high-elevation ecosystem reveal host, vector, and hemosporidian parasite associations. Canadian Journal of Zoology.

Miscellaneous

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