Much of Lewis's work involves
biofilms.[1] Lewis was awarded a New Zealand Microbiology Society Distinguished Orator Award.[4]
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.