Courtney is a co-infection specialist who led fieldwork to assess resilience of hosts to viral infections. Her interests include the ecology of within-host interactions among parasites and the epidemiological consequences of anthelmintic treatments.
Education
2008-2014
Ph. D. in Biological Sciences
Texas Tech University
2003-2007
B.S. in Wildlife Biology with a concentration in Zoological Conservation
Scientific Posts
Summers of 2016 and 2017
Postdoctoral Research Specialist
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
2015-2017 (except summer 2016)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Biology
Virginia Tech
Summer 2014
Early Career Fellow
Mountain Lake Biological Station
University of Virginia