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Jeffrey A. Lewis

Jeffrey A. Lewis, PhD

All organisms must endure diverse environmental stresses during their lifetime. Our lab seeks to understand how microbes adapt and even thrive in the face of various environmental assaults. Microbial stress responses are remarkably complex, coordinating multiple levels of sensing, signal transduction, and global regulatory networks. Thus, stress research feeds into nearly all aspects of cell biology, with implications for human disease, microbial pathogenesis, and the evolution of regulatory networks.

Our group studies stress responses through the perspective of natural variation. Inarguably, model organisms have provided fundamental insights into basic biology. However, most of our knowledge derives from a small number of domesticated lines—we lack a detailed knowledge of the ecology and phenotypic diversity of different individuals within the same microbial species. With the advent of genomic technologies, we are now uniquely poised to perform comparative genomic studies on wild microbial strains. We use these powerful new approaches, as well as classical genetics and biochemistry, to generate novel insights into the regulatory logic and function of stress signaling and defense.

Contact Info

Lab Location  
FERR 215
349 North Campus Drive
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Shipping Address
850 W. Dickson St.
SCEN 601
Fayetteville, AR 72701 

Phone & Email
Office: (479) 575-7740
Lab: (479) 575-2845
lewisja@uark.edu

Lab Websites
Department of Biological Sciences
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program