Heather Hendrickson

Heather Hendrickson
Born	Salt Lake City
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh
Thesis	Chromosome Architecture and Evolution in Bacteria (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Professor Jeffrey G. Lawrence
Academic work
Institutions	University of Canterbury, Massey University
Website	hendricksonlab.co.nz

Heather Hendrickson is a microbiologist and an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She previously worked at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. Her research is focussed on the evolution of bacterial cell shape, and the discovery of bacteriophages that can attack antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the bee disease American foulbrood.