Science AMA Series: I'm Heather Hendrickson, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences at Massey University in Aukland, New Zealand. I'm here to answer questions about bacterial resistance and the future of health. AMA!

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I am currently exploring a radical and counter-intuitive solution to the 'antibiotic apocalypse': one of the greatest threats to our future health, meaning that drugs will no longer work due to bacterial resistance. We're interested in infecting patients with viruses that could save their lives.

My group and students are virus hunters – searching for new viruses that kill bacteria. We work on how bacteria evolve with an eye towards understanding what innovations we can expect from them in the future.

I completed my PhD work studying Bacterial Evolution at the University of Pittsburgh and was then awarded a prestigious Human Frontier of Science Program Long Term Fellowship to work with Professor David Sherratt at Oxford University.

I'll be talking about the antibiotic apocalypse at BBC Future's World Changing Ideas Summit on 15 November in Sydney.

I will be here to answer questions at 4:00pm EST, 21:00pm GMT. Ask me anything!

">Science AMA Series: I'm Heather Hendrickson, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences at Massey University in Aukland, New Zealand. I'm here to answer questions about bacterial resistance and the future of health. AMA!