Ecology alumna Alexandra Z. Worden, PhD ’00, was a featured guest on the Nov. 24, 2019 episode of the podcast This Week in Virology, where she discussed her career and her research relating to giant viruses that infect ocean hosts. The podcast was recorded at the Fourth Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany, where Worden gave the opening address, “A Sea of Giant Viruses.”
Worden is the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator and a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and adjunct professor of Ocean Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz. She studies mechanisms and controls of microbial population dynamics, with an emphasis on carbon cycling in marine ecosystems.