About the Authors

Han Du

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jian Bing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Tianren Hu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Craig L. Ennis

Affiliations Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, Merced, Merced, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, United States of America

Clarissa J. Nobile

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, United States of America

Guanghua Huang

huanggh@fudan.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital and State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

Clarissa J. Nobile is a cofounder of BioSynesis, Inc., a company developing inhibitors and diagnostics of biofilms.