Dr. Courtney Murdock
@ecodynvplab.bsky.social
Disease Ecologist. Vector Biologist. Associate Professor. Mom of 3. Department of Entomology. Cornell University. All opinions are my own.
Excited to kickoff the @ASTMH 2025 meeting in Toronto. One day late due to teaching this term, but happy to be in the Presidential Plenary this morning with fellow colleagues discussing the unprecedented threats of global funding cuts on malaria elimination.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Excited to kickoff the @ASTMH 2025 meeting in Toronto. One day late due to teaching this term, but happy to be in the Presidential Plenary this morning with fellow colleagues discussing the unprecedented threats of global funding cuts on malaria elimination.
Come see our Urban Malaria Team at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 2025 meeting! We have an exciting line-up of talks and posters on the effects of climate, control, urban heterogeneity, and climate change on malaria transmission in cities!
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Come see our Urban Malaria Team at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 2025 meeting! We have an exciting line-up of talks and posters on the effects of climate, control, urban heterogeneity, and climate change on malaria transmission in cities!
We are hosting an exciting symposium at this year's American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting next week in Toronto titled "Malaria in the Metropolis"! This symposium focuses on leveraging international collaboration to control mosquito-borne diseases in cities!
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We are hosting an exciting symposium at this year's American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting next week in Toronto titled "Malaria in the Metropolis"! This symposium focuses on leveraging international collaboration to control mosquito-borne diseases in cities!
Meet the Bears...Hope, Resilience, and Harmony
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Meet the Bears...Hope, Resilience, and Harmony
Meet the Bears...Self-Care, Triumph, and Good Vibes
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Meet the Bears...Self-Care, Triumph, and Good Vibes
Happy Halloween! Sending love, empathy, hope, resilience, harmony, self-care, and general good vibes to triumph over darkness from the EcoDyn VP Lab Care Bears Stare this Halloween 2025!
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Happy Halloween! Sending love, empathy, hope, resilience, harmony, self-care, and general good vibes to triumph over darkness from the EcoDyn VP Lab Care Bears Stare this Halloween 2025!
We received an NOA for a new NIH Training grant: "Building an India-Africa Network to Support Research and Control of Urban Malaria"! This network brings together experts from African, Indian, and Western institutions to build rapid capacity to address this emerging threat in Africa. More soon!
September 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We received an NOA for a new NIH Training grant: "Building an India-Africa Network to Support Research and Control of Urban Malaria"! This network brings together experts from African, Indian, and Western institutions to build rapid capacity to address this emerging threat in Africa. More soon!
My PhD student Anna Shattuck just passed her comprehensive exam with flying colors to become a PhD candidate! Go Anna! Well done 😊.
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My PhD student Anna Shattuck just passed her comprehensive exam with flying colors to become a PhD candidate! Go Anna! Well done 😊.
When I am not professoring, I am momming. Spent the weekend in Niagra, New York at the TCS Niagra Falls Summer Showndown AAU youth hockey tournament. My son's AA 12U team took home the championship. Great way to end the spring hockey season.
June 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When I am not professoring, I am momming. Spent the weekend in Niagra, New York at the TCS Niagra Falls Summer Showndown AAU youth hockey tournament. My son's AA 12U team took home the championship. Great way to end the spring hockey season.
Celebrating @mosquitohunting.bsky.social today in lab meeting and her recent publication!
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May 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Celebrating @mosquitohunting.bsky.social today in lab meeting and her recent publication!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Newberry, a PhD student in my group who graduated officially from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia on May 8th 😊! Well done, and congratulations, Mike!
May 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Newberry, a PhD student in my group who graduated officially from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia on May 8th 😊! Well done, and congratulations, Mike!
I am very excited to participate in a keynote lecture by Ray Huey, one of the fathers of thermal and physiological ecology, today during Evo Day here at Cornell. His work is the foundation of our work, and it is awesome to see it presented live today 😊.
May 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am very excited to participate in a keynote lecture by Ray Huey, one of the fathers of thermal and physiological ecology, today during Evo Day here at Cornell. His work is the foundation of our work, and it is awesome to see it presented live today 😊.
Heading home to the U.S. today. Here is the almost complete team from the Surat Municipal Corporation...out for a team dinner. We are missing Mr. Suthar and Dr. Dhwani, who were busy for World Malaria Day. Thank you as always for your excellent work, your collaboration, and friendship.
April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Heading home to the U.S. today. Here is the almost complete team from the Surat Municipal Corporation...out for a team dinner. We are missing Mr. Suthar and Dr. Dhwani, who were busy for World Malaria Day. Thank you as always for your excellent work, your collaboration, and friendship.
Also, this tractor...why can't we have nice things in the United States 😊. This makes me happy.
April 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Also, this tractor...why can't we have nice things in the United States 😊. This makes me happy.
We placed the final 144th logger today in Surat with @mcwimberly.bsky.social and colleagues from the Surat Municipal Corporation. Here are some pics from the field 😊.
April 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We placed the final 144th logger today in Surat with @mcwimberly.bsky.social and colleagues from the Surat Municipal Corporation. Here are some pics from the field 😊.
World Malaria Day. Progress has been made on malaria elimination but it remains a killer. Changing climate, invasive mosquitoes, and limited global funding are threatening efforts. Today, we are in India working to better understand the effects of climate on urban malaria. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
World Malaria Day. Progress has been made on malaria elimination but it remains a killer. Changing climate, invasive mosquitoes, and limited global funding are threatening efforts. Today, we are in India working to better understand the effects of climate on urban malaria. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
We set another 36 loggers across construction sites today to monitor the microclimate mosquitoes experience during the pre-monsoon season. Here are some pics of construction trucks because they make me happy. Why can't we have colorful trucks in the U.S.? @mcwimberly.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We set another 36 loggers across construction sites today to monitor the microclimate mosquitoes experience during the pre-monsoon season. Here are some pics of construction trucks because they make me happy. Why can't we have colorful trucks in the U.S.? @mcwimberly.bsky.social
Pics from Surat today. Super hot and humid in the pre-monsoon season here...it was a sweat fest. We have placed 72 loggers thus far throughout construction sites. Also, we found a lot of mosquitoes in these sites, especially in the unfinished underground parks. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Pics from Surat today. Super hot and humid in the pre-monsoon season here...it was a sweat fest. We have placed 72 loggers thus far throughout construction sites. Also, we found a lot of mosquitoes in these sites, especially in the unfinished underground parks. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
Spent the day replacing batteries and reprogramming loggers so they are ready to be placed across construction sites throughout Surat. Looking forward to setting them the rest of the week. It is the beginning of the pre-monsoon season here, so very hot and relatively dry. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Spent the day replacing batteries and reprogramming loggers so they are ready to be placed across construction sites throughout Surat. Looking forward to setting them the rest of the week. It is the beginning of the pre-monsoon season here, so very hot and relatively dry. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
Heading back to India. We will quantify the microclimate mosquitoes experience in construction sites, as they are potentially important climate refugia during the hot, dry pre-monsoon season for malaria and dengue mosquitoes. Potentially, my last trip due to NIH funding freezes threatening Cornell.
April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Heading back to India. We will quantify the microclimate mosquitoes experience in construction sites, as they are potentially important climate refugia during the hot, dry pre-monsoon season for malaria and dengue mosquitoes. Potentially, my last trip due to NIH funding freezes threatening Cornell.
Headed to the University of Georgia to give a seminar in the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases and for one of my Ph.D. student's defense. I am very excited to see my former colleagues and friends. And, it's spring break, so bringing the family 😊.
April 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Headed to the University of Georgia to give a seminar in the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases and for one of my Ph.D. student's defense. I am very excited to see my former colleagues and friends. And, it's spring break, so bringing the family 😊.
Very excited to be giving a seminar tomorrow at Purdue University on the climate drivers of malaria transmission in urban environments by the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi! Thank you for the invitation 😊.
I also flew on the smallest plane ever to get here, which was an adventure!
I also flew on the smallest plane ever to get here, which was an adventure!
March 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Very excited to be giving a seminar tomorrow at Purdue University on the climate drivers of malaria transmission in urban environments by the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi! Thank you for the invitation 😊.
I also flew on the smallest plane ever to get here, which was an adventure!
I also flew on the smallest plane ever to get here, which was an adventure!
Last day in India. Thank you to my Indian collaborators for another wonderful trip. Research in the field is my happy place and I have learned a lot from my friends in the National Institute of Malaria Research and the Ahmedabad and Surat Municipal corporations. Bye for now 😊.
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Last day in India. Thank you to my Indian collaborators for another wonderful trip. Research in the field is my happy place and I have learned a lot from my friends in the National Institute of Malaria Research and the Ahmedabad and Surat Municipal corporations. Bye for now 😊.
My happy place as a researcher trying to understand how the world works is in the field...where it all matters.
March 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My happy place as a researcher trying to understand how the world works is in the field...where it all matters.
And some fun pictures from the field in Surat, India.
March 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
And some fun pictures from the field in Surat, India.