About the Authors

Matthew A. Hemphill

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Hemphill, Borna E. Dabiri, Sylvain Gabriele

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Borna E. Dabiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Hemphill, Borna E. Dabiri, Sylvain Gabriele

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sylvain Gabriele

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew A. Hemphill, Borna E. Dabiri, Sylvain Gabriele

Current address: Faculty of Sciences, Interfaces and Complex Fluids, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lucas Kerscher

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Franck

Current address: School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Josue A. Goss

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick W. Alford

Current address: College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin Kit Parker

kkparker@seas.harvard.edu

Affiliation Disease Biophysics Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

S.G. is Chargé de Recherches of the F.R.S.-FNRS. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKP PWA MAH BED SG LK CF . Performed the experiments: LK MAH BED SG. Analyzed the data: MAH BED SG LK CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAG BED. Wrote the paper: MAH BED SG KKP.