About the Authors

Benjamin Matteson Vincent

Affiliations Microbiology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alex Kelvin Lancaster

Current address: Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ruth Scherz-Shouval

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luke Whitesell

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Lindquist

Lindquist_admin@wi.mit.edu

Affiliations Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: BMV AKL SL. Performed the experiments: BMV AKL RSS LW. Analyzed the data: BMV AKL SLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMV AKL. Wrote the paper: BMV SL.