About the Authors

Lynn Morris

lynnm@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Xi Chen

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Munir Alam

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Georgia Tomaras

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ruijun Zhang

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Dawn J. Marshall

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Bing Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Parks

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew Foulger

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Frederick Jaeger

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michele Donathan

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mira Bilska

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elin S. Gray

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Salim S. Abdool Karim

Affiliation Center for AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Thomas B. Kepler

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

John Whitesides

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David Montefiori

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Anthony Moody

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Hua-Xin Liao

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Barton F. Haynes

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM MA GT DM MAM HL BFH. Performed the experiments: LM XC RZ DJM RP AF FJ MD MB EG. Analyzed the data: LM XC MA GT EG TK JW DM MAM HL BFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC SAK TK JW MAM HL BFH. Wrote the paper: LM MA MAM HL BFH.