About the Authors

James B. Whitney

jwhitne2@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter T. Hraber

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Corinne Luedemann

Affiliation Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elena E. Giorgi

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Marcus G. Daniels

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Srinivas S. Rao

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gary J. Nabel

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bette T. Korber

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Norman L. Letvin

Affiliations Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBW. Performed the experiments: JBW CL SSR. Analyzed the data: JBW PTH BTK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBW PTH EEG MGD TB JRM GJN BTK. Wrote the paper: JBW NLL.