About the Authors

Poornima Parameswaran

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ella Sklan

Current address: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Courtney Wilkins

Current address: Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Trever Burgon

Current address: Sg2, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Melanie A. Samuel

Current address: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rui Lu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

K. Mark Ansel

Affiliation Strategic Asthma Basic Research Center and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Vigo Heissmeyer

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany

Shirit Einav

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

William Jackson

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Center for Biopreparedness and Infectious Diseases, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Tammy Doukas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Suman Paranjape

Current address: Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Charlotta Polacek

Current address: National Veterinary Institute, Lindholm, Denmark

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Flavia Barreto dos Santos

Current address: Laboratório de Flavivirus, Pav. Helio e Peggy Pereira, sala B 102, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Roxana Jalili

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Farbod Babrzadeh

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Baback Gharizadeh

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Dirk Grimm

Current address: Dept. of Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics & Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mark Kay

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics & Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Satoshi Koike

Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan

Peter Sarnow

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mostafa Ronaghi

Current address: Illumina, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Shou-Wei Ding

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Eva Harris

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Marie Chow

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Michael S. Diamond

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Karla Kirkegaard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jeffrey S. Glenn

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Andrew Z. Fire

afire@stanford.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology & Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP AZF. Performed the experiments: PP. Analyzed the data: PP AZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP ES CW TB MAS RL KMA VH SE WJ TD SP CP FBdS RJ FB BG DG MK SK PS MR SWD EH MC MSD KK JSG AZF. Wrote the paper: PP AZF.