Eric Hendrixson, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Hendrixson, Ph.D., earned a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Arkansas in 1994 and a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology from Washington University School of Medicine in 1999. Under the mentorship of Joseph W. St. Geme III, M.D., his doctoral research focused on the mechanisms of adherence of Haemophilus influenzae to human respiratory epithelial cells.
During his postdoctoral fellowship with Victor DiRita, Ph.D., at the University of Michigan Medical School, Hendrixson developed genetic systems for Campylobacter jejuni and studied factors required for infection of animal and human hosts.
Since 2004, Hendrixson has led a research program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center focused on flagellar biogenesis and motility in polarly flagellated bacterial pathogens, as well as the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in C. jejuni.