About the Authors

Paula A. Vasquez

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Yuan Jin

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Erik Palmer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

David Hill

Affiliations Marsico Lung Institute & Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Gregory Forest

forest@unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH. Performed the experiments: DH. Analyzed the data: YJ PAV MGF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJ EP PAV DH MGF. Wrote the paper: EP PAV MGF.