About the Authors

Mojgan Padash Barmchi

padash@zoology.ubc.ca (MPB); zhangbing@missouri.edu (BZ); auld@zoology.ubc.ca (VJA)

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Mary Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Miranda Thomas

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy

Lawrence Banks

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy

Bing Zhang

padash@zoology.ubc.ca (MPB); zhangbing@missouri.edu (BZ); auld@zoology.ubc.ca (VJA)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Vanessa J. Auld

padash@zoology.ubc.ca (MPB); zhangbing@missouri.edu (BZ); auld@zoology.ubc.ca (VJA)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

A patent entitled: “A Drosophila model of HPV E6-mediated cellular transformation for drug screening and discovery” is pending for the following authors: Mojgan Padash Barmchi, Bing Zhang, Vanessa J. Auld, Mary Gilbert and Lawrence Banks. The authors declare no other competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPB MG LB BZ VJA. Performed the experiments: MPB MG MT. Analyzed the data: MPB MG MT LB BZ VJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG MT. Wrote the paper: MPB MG MT LB BZ VJA.