posted on 2025-08-28, 16:59authored byTin Wai Ng, Nikola Ojkic, Diana Serbanescu, Shiladitya Banerjee
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We thank Aaron Dinner and Norbert Scherer (University of Chicago) for providing the single-cell growth and shape data for Caulobacter crescentus cells and Vahid Shahrezaei (Imperial College London) for sharing the data for M. smegmatis cells. The authors also thank Javier López-Garrido and Octavio Reyes-Matte for many useful discussions. S Banerjee acknowledges support from the Royal Society (RGF/EA/181044), the National Institutes of Health (NIH R35 GM143042), and the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.,TW Ng: formal analysis, investigation, visualization, methodology, and writing—original draft.N Ojkic: conceptualization, formal analysis, validation, investigation, visualization, methodology, and writing—original draft, review, and editing.D Serbanescu: formal analysis, validation, and investigation.S Banerjee: conceptualization, data curation, supervision, funding acquisition, validation, investigation, visualization, methodology, project administration, and writing—original draft, review, and editing.,TW Ng: formal analysis, investigation, visualization, methodology, and writing—original draft.,N Ojkic: conceptualization, formal analysis, validation, investigation, visualization, methodology, and writing—original draft, review, and editing.,D Serbanescu: formal analysis, validation, and investigation.,S Banerjee: conceptualization, data curation, supervision, funding acquisition, validation, investigation, visualization, methodology, project administration, and writing—original draft, review, and editing.,The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.