About the Authors

William A. Braff

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dana Willner

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Philip Hugenholtz

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Korneel Rabaey

Affiliations Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Cullen R. Buie

crb@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WAB DW PH KR CRB. Performed the experiments: WAB DW. Analyzed the data: WAB DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW PH. Wrote the paper: WAB DW PH KR CRB.