About the Authors

Surya D. Aggarwal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Rory Eutsey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Jacob West-Roberts

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Arnau Domenech

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Wenjie Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Iman Tajer Abdullah

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Iraq

Aaron P. Mitchell

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Jan-Willem Veening

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hasan Yesilkaya

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

N. Luisa Hiller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lhiller@andrew.cmu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Biofilm Research, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.