About the Authors

Raihana Z. Edros

Affiliation School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Susan McDonnell

Affiliation School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Mohamed Al-Rubeai

m.al-rubeai@ucd.ie

Affiliation School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA-R. Performed the experiments: RZE. Analyzed the data: RZE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA-R SM. Wrote the paper: RZE MA-R SM.