About the Authors

Matthijn C. Hesselman

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthijn C. Hesselman, Dorett I. Odoni, Brendan M. Ryback

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Dorett I. Odoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthijn C. Hesselman, Dorett I. Odoni, Brendan M. Ryback

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Brendan M. Ryback

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthijn C. Hesselman, Dorett I. Odoni, Brendan M. Ryback

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Suzette de Groot

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ruben G. A. van Heck

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Jaap Keijsers

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Pim Kolkman

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

David Nieuwenhuijse

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Youri M. van Nuland

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Erik Sebus

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Rob Spee

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Hugo de Vries

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Marten T. Wapenaar

Affiliation Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Colin J. Ingham

Affiliation MicroDish BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Karin Schroën

Affiliation Food Process Engineering, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Vítor A. P. Martins dos Santos

Affiliation Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sebastiaan K. Spaans

Affiliations Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Floor Hugenholtz

Affiliations Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mark W. J. van Passel

Mark.vanPassel@wur.nl

Affiliations Wageningen UR iGEM 2011 Team, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The Wageningen UR iGEM team has received general sponsorship in kind from MicroDish BV (cultivation chips), Aquamarijn (microsieves), and Olympus (a 20x microscope objective). CJI is an employee of Microdish BV that manufactures culture chips based around porous aluminium oxide. However, the work reported in this paper is not part of the core business of the company. CJI is senior scientist in MicroDish. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCH DIO BMR FH MWJvP. Performed the experiments: MCH DIO BMR. Analyzed the data: MCH DIO BMR SdG RvH JK PK DN YvN ES RS HdV MTW KS CJI VAPMdS SKS FH MWJvP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJI KS. Wrote the paper: MCH DIO BMR SdG RvH JK PK DN YvN ES RS HdV MTW CJI KS VAPMdS SKS FH MWJvP.