About the Authors

Federico M. Lauro

flauro@unsw.edu.au (FML); joeg@dri.edu (JJG)

Affiliations School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Svend Jacob Senstius

Affiliation Department of Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jay Cullen

Affiliation School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Russell Neches

Affiliation Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Rachelle M. Jensen

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mark V. Brown

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Aaron E. Darling

Affiliation The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

Michael Givskov

Affiliations Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Costerton Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Diane McDougald

Affiliations Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ron Hoeke

Affiliation Centre for Australian Climate and Weather Research, CSIRO, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia

Martin Ostrowski

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Gayle K. Philip

Affiliation VLSCI Life Sciences Computation Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ian T. Paulsen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Joseph J. Grzymski

flauro@unsw.edu.au (FML); joeg@dri.edu (JJG)

Affiliation Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.