About the Authors

Benjamin Misselwitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Misselwitz, Naomi Barrett

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Naomi Barrett

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Misselwitz, Naomi Barrett

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Saskia Kreibich

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Pascale Vonaesch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Andritschke

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Samuel Rout

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Kerstin Weidner

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Milos Sormaz

Affiliation Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Pascal Songhet

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Peter Horvath

Affiliation Light Microscopy Centre, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Mamta Chabria

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Viola Vogel

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Doris M. Spori

Affiliation Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Patrick Jenny

Affiliation Institute for Fluid Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

hardt@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM NB SK PV DA MS VV PJ WDH. Performed the experiments: BM NB SK PV DA SR KW MS PS MC. Analyzed the data: BM NB SK PV DA SR KW MS PH MC VV DMS PJ WDH. Wrote the paper: BM NB SK WDH.