About the Authors

Xizhi Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xizhi Feng, Karthik Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Karthik Krishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xizhi Feng, Karthik Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Daryl L. Richie

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Vishukumar Aimanianda

Affiliation Unité des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Lukas Hartl

Affiliation Unité des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Nora Grahl

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Margaret V. Powers-Fletcher

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Minlu Zhang

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kevin K. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

William C. Nierman

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Long Jason Lu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jean-Paul Latgé

Affiliation Unité des Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Laura Woollett

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Simon L. Newman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Robert A. Cramer Jr.

Affiliation Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Judith C. Rhodes

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

David S. Askew

David.Askew@uc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XF KK DSA. Performed the experiments: XF KK DLR VA LH NG MVP-F KKF LW SLN MZ LJL. Analyzed the data: XF KK DLR VA LH NG MVP-F KKF JPL LW SLN RACJ JCR DSA LJL MZ WCN. Wrote the paper: XF KK DSA.