The primary focus of our lab is to better understand how disturbance can impact mutualistic & pathogenic interactions among plants, fungi, bacteria, & animals.

Many lab members use microbial models to answer questions about forest communities.

Much of our research is conducted in the northeastern U.S., Oceania, particularly the Sydney metropolitan area, and Bahia, Brazil.

Research Opportunities

We have research opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students broadly interested in plant ecology, microbial ecology, or forest ecology.

If you are interested, please feel free to contact me directly (jdlewis@fordham.edu).

More information on Fordham’s graduate program in biological sciences can be found here.

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