About the Authors

M. Isabel G. Lopez Sanchez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

isabel.lopez@unimelb.edu.au (MIGLS); i.trounce@unimelb.edu.au (IAT)

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mark Ziemann

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Diabetes, Monash University Central Clinical School, The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

Annabell Bachem

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rahul Makam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jonathan G. Crowston

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Carl A. Pinkert

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Matthew McKenzie

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

Affiliations School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Molecular and Translational Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sammy Bedoui

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ian A. Trounce

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

isabel.lopez@unimelb.edu.au (MIGLS); i.trounce@unimelb.edu.au (IAT)

Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.