About the Authors

Thomas J. Goodwin

thomas.j.goodwin@nasa.gov (TJG); Randall.Cohrs@ucdenver.edu (RJC); b.kaufer@fu-berlin.de (BBK)

Affiliation Disease Modeling/Tissue Analogues Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maureen McCarthy

Affiliation Disease Modeling/Tissue Analogues Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nikolaus Osterrieder

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Randall J. Cohrs

thomas.j.goodwin@nasa.gov (TJG); Randall.Cohrs@ucdenver.edu (RJC); b.kaufer@fu-berlin.de (BBK)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Benedikt B. Kaufer

thomas.j.goodwin@nasa.gov (TJG); Randall.Cohrs@ucdenver.edu (RJC); b.kaufer@fu-berlin.de (BBK)

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJG NO RJC BBK. Performed the experiments: TJG MM RJC BBK. Analyzed the data: TJG MM RJC BBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJG NO RJC BBK. Wrote the paper: TJG NO RJC BBK.