About the Authors

Megan K. Murphy

Affiliations Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ling Yue

Affiliation Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ruimin Pan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Saikat Boliar

Affiliation Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Anurag Sethi

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jianhui Tian

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Katja Pfafferot

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Etienne Karita

Affiliation Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

Susan A. Allen

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Emmanuel Cormier

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Human Immunology Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Paul A. Goepfert

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Persephone Borrow

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

James E. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

S. Gnanakaran

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Eric Hunter

Affiliations Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiang-Peng Kong

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Cynthia A. Derdeyn

cderdey@emory.edu

Affiliations Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKM CAD XPK PB PAG LY EH JER. Performed the experiments: MKM RP SB LY KP. Analyzed the data: MKM CAD XPK AS JT SG PB PAG EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JER EC SAA EK XPK RP. Wrote the manuscript: MKM CAD XPK JER SG. Contributed to participant recruitment, follow-up, and field site management: SAA EK EC.