About the Authors

Samia Hannaoui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Sara Amidian

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yo Ching Cheng

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Camilo Duque Velásquez

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Lyudmyla Dorosh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sampson Law

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Glenn Telling

Roles Resources

Affiliation Prion Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Maria Stepanova

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Debbie McKenzie

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Holger Wille

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sabine Gilch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sgilch@ucalgary.ca

Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Calgary Prion Research Unit, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.