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.
Thank you for an excellent symposium this morning at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) on building a global initiative to address urban malaria transmission in Africa. Thank you to our speakers and the audience members that joined us early this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thank you for an excellent symposium this morning at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) on building a global initiative to address urban malaria transmission in Africa. Thank you to our speakers and the audience members that joined us early this morning.
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!
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 😊.
Reposted by Dr. Courtney Murdock
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more”
This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated
archive.is/8sYNv
archive.is/8sYNv
July 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more”
Reposted by Dr. Courtney Murdock
As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders.
Here are some ways all of us can help:
Here are some ways all of us can help:
Hill Country flooding: Here’s how to give and receive help
Catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country has killed 79 people. Rescue crews are searching for missing girls from Camp Mystic. Here is a guide on how to help those affected.
www.texastribune.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders.
Here are some ways all of us can help:
Here are some ways all of us can help:
Reposted by Dr. Courtney Murdock
The manuscript offers new insights into spatial and temporal patterns of urban microclimate, emphasizing contrasts between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and indoor and outdoor microenvironment. We would be interested to hear your feedback!
June 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The manuscript offers new insights into spatial and temporal patterns of urban microclimate, emphasizing contrasts between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and indoor and outdoor microenvironment. We would be interested to hear your feedback!
New preprint from our group on how indoor and outdoor microclimates vary across Indian cities and seasonally: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
@mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.
@mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Heat in Indoor and Outdoor Microclimates
A document by Yusuf Jamal. Click on the document to view its contents.
essopenarchive.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New preprint from our group on how indoor and outdoor microclimates vary across Indian cities and seasonally: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
@mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.
@mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.
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.
Postdoc position available at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine!
Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions.
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Wolbachia Biology | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Ready to make a difference in vector biology research? We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic researcher to join an exciting BBSRC-funded project exploring the fascinating interactions betwee...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Postdoc position available at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine!
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June 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another preprint from our group online!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We find socioeconomic disparities and water management practices influence urban malaria incidence and prevention behaviors in Surat and Ahmedabad, two cities of India in the state of Gujurat.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We find socioeconomic disparities and water management practices influence urban malaria incidence and prevention behaviors in Surat and Ahmedabad, two cities of India in the state of Gujurat.
Socioeconomic Indicators, Household Water Management, and Malaria Prevention and Control in Gujarat, India
<p><b><span>Background</span></b></p>
<p><span>Malaria remains a major public health concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in urban
papers.ssrn.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Another preprint from our group online!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We find socioeconomic disparities and water management practices influence urban malaria incidence and prevention behaviors in Surat and Ahmedabad, two cities of India in the state of Gujurat.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We find socioeconomic disparities and water management practices influence urban malaria incidence and prevention behaviors in Surat and Ahmedabad, two cities of India in the state of Gujurat.
New preprint out from our group! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find that relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of a key malaria vector. These effects are also likely important for aquatic insects more generally, and for predicting their responses to climate change.
We find that relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of a key malaria vector. These effects are also likely important for aquatic insects more generally, and for predicting their responses to climate change.
Beyond temperature: Relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of population growth in a malaria vector
Understanding ectotherm responses to environmental change is central to coping with many of humanity′s current and future challenges in public health, biodiversity conservation, and food security. Com...
www.biorxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New preprint out from our group! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We find that relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of a key malaria vector. These effects are also likely important for aquatic insects more generally, and for predicting their responses to climate change.
We find that relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of a key malaria vector. These effects are also likely important for aquatic insects more generally, and for predicting their responses to climate change.
Celebrating @mosquitohunting.bsky.social today in lab meeting and her recent publication!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
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...
New paper out by @mosquitohunting.bsky.social!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!
Frontiers | Mosquito vector diversity and malaria transmission
Malaria is the most important parasitic disease in the world, killing over half a million people a year. Globally, we have made gains toward eliminating this...
www.frontiersin.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New paper out by @mosquitohunting.bsky.social!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...
This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!
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 😊.
New preprint out from our group led by @infectiouschill.bsky.social! Anna compares how various species distribution models perform at predicting the relatively recent invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito, a significant pest species, in Suffolk County, New York.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Field-validation of multiple species distribution models shows variation in performance for predicting Aedes albopictus distributions at the invasion edge
Climate and land use changes have resulted in range expansion of many species. In this shifting disease landscape, it is important to leverage tools that can predict the potential distributions of inv...
www.biorxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New preprint out from our group led by @infectiouschill.bsky.social! Anna compares how various species distribution models perform at predicting the relatively recent invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito, a significant pest species, in Suffolk County, New York.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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