About the Authors

Stephanie E. Woods

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie E. Woods, Mia T. Lieberman

Current address: Research and Development, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mia T. Lieberman

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie E. Woods, Mia T. Lieberman

MTRL01@mit.edu

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francois Lebreton

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology, and Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America

Elise Trowel

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

César de la Fuente-Núñez

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Synthetic Biology Group, MIT Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, United States of America, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joanne Dzink-Fox

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael S. Gilmore

Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

James G. Fox

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SEW JGF. Formal analysis: MTL MSG JGF. Funding acquisition: JGF MSG. Investigation: SEW MTL FL ET CDLF-N JDF. Methodology: SEW MTL FL JGF MSG. Project administration: JGF. Resources: JGF MSG. Supervision: JGF MSG. Validation: MTL MSG JGF. Visualization: MTL SEW JDF CDLF-N. Writing – original draft: MTL. Writing – review & editing: MTL SEW MSG CDLF-N JGF JDF.