Gillian Dianne Lewis is a New Zealand microbiologist. She is a full professor at the University of Auckland^[1] and on the board of Crown Research Institute NIWA.^[2][3]

Academic career

After a PhD from the University of Otago,"Enteric viruses in aquatic habitats", Lewis moved to the University of Auckland and rose to full professor.^[1]

Much of Lewis's work involves biofilms.^[1]

Selected works

• Lewis, Gillian D., and THEODORE G. Metcalf. "Polyethylene glycol precipitation for recovery of pathogenic viruses, including hepatitis A virus and human rotavirus, from oyster, water, and sediment samples." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 54, no. 8 (1988): 1983–1988.
• Simmons, Greg, Virginia Hope, Gillian Lewis, John Whitmore, and Wanzhen Gao. "Contamination of potable roof-collected rainwater in Auckland, New Zealand." Water Research 35, no. 6 (2001): 1518–1524.
• Anderson, S. A., S. J. Turner, and G. D. Lewis. "Enterococci in the New Zealand environment: implications for water quality monitoring."Water Science and Technology 35, no. 11-12 (1997): 325–331.
• Lear, Gavin, Marti J. Anderson, Joanna P. Smith, Kristine Boxen, and Gillian D. Lewis. "Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the bacterial communities in stream epilithic biofilms." FEMS Microbiology Ecology 65, no. 3 (2008): 463–473.
• Greening, G. E., J. Hewitt, and G. D. Lewis. "Evaluation of integrated cell culture‐PCR (C‐PCR) for virological analysis of environmental samples." Journal of Applied Microbiology 93, no. 5 (2002): 745–750.

References

External links

• Gillian Dianne Lewis publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Gillian Dianne Lewis on LinkedIn
• Institutional homepage