About the Authors

Andrew T. Crane

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew T. Crane, Matthew R. Chrostek

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atcrane@umn.edu (ATC); lowwalt@umn.edu (WCL)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Matthew R. Chrostek

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew T. Crane, Matthew R. Chrostek

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Venkatramana D. Krishna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Maple Shiao

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Nikolas G. Toman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Clairice M. Pearce

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Sarah K. Tran

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Christopher J. Sipe

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Winston Guo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Joseph P. Voth

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Neuroscience, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Shivanshi Vaid

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Hui Xie

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Shenyang Medical College, Department of Histology and Embryology, Shenyang, China.

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Wei-Cheng Lu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Will Swanson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Andrew W. Grande

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Mark R. Schleiss

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Craig J. Bierle

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Maxim C-J. Cheeran

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Walter C. Low

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

atcrane@umn.edu (ATC); lowwalt@umn.edu (WCL)

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors ATC, MRC, MS, NT, CP, CS, JPV, CJB, and WCL are listed as inventors in an active U.S. patent (US10,610,583) entitled “Methods and compositions for treating glioma and medulloblastoma brain tumors using the zika virus” assigned to the Reagents of the University of Minnesota. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors disclose no competing interests.