Courtney Murdock

111 Merkle Lab
University Park
PA 16802, USA

Tel. +1 814 865 1024
ccm15@psu.edu
http://www.thereadgroup.net


Research interest


Degrees

University of Michigan: B.S. in Biology, minor in Spanish literature (2002)

University of Michigan: Ph.D. Natural Resources (2009)


Research experience

Postdoctoral Scholar (2009 - present) Pennsylvania State University Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics Department of Biology

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

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


Publications

Foxman, B., Goldberg, D., Murdock, C., Xi, C. and J. Gilsdorf. Conceptualizing human microbiota: from multi-celled organ to ecological community. Volume 2008, Article ID 613979, 5 pages. pdf

Murdock, C. C., Olival, K. J., and S. L. Perkins. 2010. Molecular identification of host feeding patterns of snow-melt mosquitoes: potential implications for the transmission ecology of Jamestown Canyon Virus, Journal of Medical Entomology, 47(2): 226-229. pdf

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