Alexandra Z. Worden

EDUCATION
2000. Ph.D. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia (UGA).

1992. B.A. Wellesley College, History, with concentration in Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS
2004-Present. Assistant Professor, Marine Biology and Fisheries Division, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami. 2007-Present. Secondary Appointment, Department of Biology, University of Miami

2003 – 2004. Visiting Scientist, Station Biologique Roscoff, France.

2002– 2003. NSF Microbial Biology/UCSD Post-doctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

TEACHING
2007. MBF570 Marine Microbial Ecology: Genomic Approaches (grad. & undergrad. level), UM.
2005 - present. Honors Thesis students, University of Miami (UM) Department of Biology.
2002. Guest Lectures for Microbial Ecology (graduate level), UCSD.
2002 – 2003. Mentor for Presidential Fellow from Chile (undergraduate laboratory internship) and Diplomstudent from Inst. Chem. Biol. Mar. Environ., University of Oldenburg, DE.
1993. Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Ecology (undergraduate level), MIT.
September 1992 – January 1994. Teaching Fellow, Inorganic Chemistry (undergraduate level), Harvard.

OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISES
R/V Walton Smith, Straits of Florida, 2006, Chief Scientist
R/V Walton Smith, Straits of Florida, 2005
R/V Oceanus, Sargasso Sea, 2002
R/V Endeavor, Sargasso Sea, 2001
R/V Endeavor, Sargasso Sea, 2001
R/V New Horizon, Southern California Bight, 1998
R/V Oceanus, Sargasso Sea, 1998
R/V Oceanus, Sargasso Sea, 1997

PUBLICATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
please see publications

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS
2004 - present Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Young Investigator in Marine Science
2003 AAAS Women’s International Science Collaboration Award
2000-2002 NSF Post-doctoral Fellow in Microbial Biology
1996-1999 NASA Earth Systems Science Graduate Fellowship
1996-1999 Regents’ Award, University of Georgia, awarded annually.
1988 Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association Award

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
2006-2007 Scientific Committee. Metagenomics 2007, San Diego CA.

2004-2006 Co-Chair. Gordon Research Conference Series: Marine Microbes, 23-28 July 2006, Biddeford ME.

2006- Scientific Advisory Board. Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA).

2006 Session Co-Chair. Linking Ecology and Diversity of Aquatic Protists: Advances and Methodologies. ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Mtg. Honolulu, HI.

2005 Invited Participant. International Census of Marine Microbes Informatics and Data Management Working Group. September 24-26, 2005. Woods Hole, MA.

2005 Session Co-Chair. Ecology of Aquatic Pathogens in a Changing Environment, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Mtg, Spain.

2005 Invited Panelist. Women in Science Symposium. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. May 31 2005. Miami, FL.

2005 Invited Participant. International Census of Marine Microbes Open Oceans and Coastal Systems Workshop. May 10-11, 2005. Honolulu, HI.

2004 Invited Participant. Horizontal Gene Flow in Microbial Communities. Sponsored by NSF & DOE. June.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Society of Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Society for Microbial Ecology

INVITED SEMINARS, TALKS & CONTRIBUTIONS
2007 Worden AZ. Picoeukaryotes: genomes, ecology & contributions to marine carbon cycling. Seminar, University of Madras, Chennai, IN. 5 January.

2006 Worden AZ. Carbon cycles & marine food webs - considering picoeukaryote roles. Seminar, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, US. 22 August.

2006 Worden AZ. Picophytoeukaryotic dynamics, diversity and genomics. Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes, Biddeford, ME, US. 23-28 July 2006.

2006 Worden AZ. Picophytoeukaryote ecology and diversity. Seminar, Dept. of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, US. 2 May.

2006 Worden AZ. Phototrophic picoplankton: diversity and ecology in the oceans. Seminar, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Yerseke, NL. 8 March.

2006 Worden AZ. Picophytoeukaryote ecology and diversity. Seminar, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL. 7 March.

2006 Worden AZ. Through the Looking Glass. Talk, Azam Symposium: Status of Bacterioplankton Ecology. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, US. February 16-17.

2006 Worden AZ. Marine picoplankton - phytoplankton, bacteria & their environmental significance. National Tropical Botanical Garden Physicians' Course, Coconut Grove, FL, US. January 26-28.

2005 Worden AZ. Global carbon cycles & marine food webs: the role of flow cytometry and picophytoplankton. Beckman Coulter BioPharma Invited Seminar Series, Kendall, FL, US. October.

2005 Worden AZ. Diversity, ecology and genomics of marine picophytoplankton. Talk, Marine Microbial Communities Diversity Symposium, Renessee, NL. September.

2005 Worden AZ. Microbial Expression: A key to environmental dynamics of picoeukaryotes. Talk, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, US. February 20-25.

2005 Worden AZ. Integrating pathogen dynamics & trophic interactions in the marine environment. Talk, Oceans and Human Health Center 1st Annual Science Symposium, Miami, FL, US. January.

2005 Brock Biology of Microorganisms 11th Edition. Selected images.

2003 Worden AZ. Marine picoeukaryote biodiversity and ecology. Seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US. March.

2003 Worden AZ. The world's smallest eukaryotes: importance to marine ecosystems? Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, US. February.

2002 Azam F & AZ Worden. Microbial control of marine ecosystem structure and function: implications for biodiversity and conservation. Plenary talk, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, US.

2002 Worden AZ. Investigating the world's smallest eukaryotes: diversity and ecology of marine picoeukaryotes. Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, US. November.

2002 Worden AZ. Assessing the dynamics and ecology of marine picophytoplankton: the importance of the eukaryotic component. Talk, PICODIV Workshop, Roscoff, FR. July.

2002 Brock Biology of Microorganisms 10th Edition. Selected TEM (Ostreococcus) and epifluoresence (environmental detection of Prochlorococcus ecotypes) images.

OTHER TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2006 Worden AZ, Armbrust EV, Bhattacharya D, Moreau H, Simon N, Van de Peer Y, Aerts A & I Grigoriev. Complete genome sequencing of two picoeukaryotic marine primary producers: the Micromonas Project. Marine Genomics, Sorrento, Italy.

2006 Cuvelier M, Binder BJ, Heidelberg JF & AZ Worden. Ecology of picoeukaryotes in open-ocean environments. Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes, Biddeford, ME.

2006 Not F, Viprey M, Vaulot D, Worden AZ, Moon-van der Staay SY & R Massana. Diversity of "Radiolarian" sequences in the pico size fraction. Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes, Biddeford, ME.

2006 Hilton J, Not F, Guigand C & AZ Worden. Seasonal variations of Gulf Stream picoplankton communities. ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Mtg., Honolulu, HI.

2006 Cuvelier ML, Armbrust EV, Bhattacharya D, Heidelberg JF, Moreau H, Simon N & AZ Worden. Comparative Genomics of picoEukaryotic Marine Primary Producers: An Introduction to the Micromonas Project. 1st Annual JGI User Mtg., Walnut Creek, CA.

2006 Not F, Heidelberg J, Gausling R & AZ Worden. Vertical distribution of picoeukaryotic diversity in the open ocean. ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Mtg., Honolulu, HI. 2004 Worden AZ, Bartlett D & F Azam. Dynamics of Vibrio cholerae in marine systems. 10th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cancun, MX.

2002 Worden AZ, Azam F, Hyldig-Nielson JJ, Stender H & R Gausling. Analysis of Sargasso Sea microbial communities by fluorescence in situ hybridization using Peptide Nucleic Acid probes. American Society of Microbiology 102nd General Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2002 Worden AZ & B Palenik. Picoeukaryote abundance, diversity, growth and grazing mortality at a California Current monitoring site. ASLO Ocean Sciences Mtg., Honolulu, HI.

2001 Worden AZ & B Palenik. Picoeukaryote diversity and physiology at a coastal monitoring site. 9th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Amsterdam, Nl.

2001 Worden AZ & BJ Binder. Growth regulation of rRNA content of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (marine cyanobacteria) measured by whole-cell hybridization of rRNA-targeted peptide nucleic acids. VIIth Cyanobacterial Workshop, Asilomar CA.

2001 Worden AZ & BJ Binder. Growth and grazing mortality dynamics of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus in the Sargasso Sea and California Current. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Aquatic Sciences Mtg., Albuquerque NM.

1998 Worden AZ, Chisholm SW & BJ Binder. A new technique for In Situ rRNA probing of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. VIth Cyanobacterial Workshop, Asilomar CA.

1998 Worden AZ, Chisholm SW & BJ Binder. Application of rRNA-targeted peptide nucleic acids in marine photosynthetic picoplankton. 8th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Halifax, NS.

1997 Worden AZ & BJ Binder. Flow cytometric analysis of stream bacterial populations. North American Benthological Society Annual Mtg., San Marcos TX.