About the Authors

Simeone Marino

Contributed equally to this work with: Simeone Marino, Hannah P. Gideon

simeonem@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Hannah P. Gideon

Contributed equally to this work with: Simeone Marino, Hannah P. Gideon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chang Gong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Shawn Mankad

Affiliation Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

John T. McCrone

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Philana Ling Lin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jennifer J. Linderman

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

JoAnne L. Flynn

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Denise E. Kirschner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMar HPG. Performed the experiments: SMar HPG SMan. Analyzed the data: SMar SMan HPG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMar HPG JLF SMan CG. Wrote the paper: SMar HPG SMan JTM PLL JJL JLF DEK. Initial calibration of the model and experimental data processing: JTM.