About the Authors

Sanja Mandaric

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Senta M. Walton

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas Rülicke

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Kirsten Richter

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Mathilde J. H. Girard-Madoux

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Björn E. Clausen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Antonija Zurunic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Masahito Kamanaka

Current address: Arai Hospital, Kuki, Saitama, Japan

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard A. Flavell

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Stipan Jonjic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Annette Oxenius

oxenius@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM SMW KR AO. Performed the experiments: SM SMW. Analyzed the data: SM SMW KR AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR MJHG-M BEC MK RAF AZ SJ. Wrote the paper: SM AO.