About the Authors

Julia Esser-von Bieren

Affiliations Laboratory of Intestinal Immunology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Beatrice Volpe

nicola.harris@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Intestinal Immunology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Duncan B. Sutherland

nicola.harris@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Intestinal Immunology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Jérôme Bürgi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell and Membrane Biology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

J. Sjef Verbeek

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Benjamin J. Marsland

Affiliation Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Service de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

Joseph F. Urban Jr

Affiliation Diet, Genomics, & Immunology Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Nicola L. Harris

Affiliation Laboratory of Intestinal Immunology, Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEvB NLH. Performed the experiments: JEvB BV DBS JB. Analyzed the data: JEvB BV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSV BJM JFU. Wrote the paper: JEvB NLH.