About the Authors

Sarah Auclair

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Fengliang Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Qingli Niu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Wei Hou

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Gavin Churchyard

Roles Resources

Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Cecilia Morgan

Roles Resources

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Nicole Frahm

Roles Resources

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Sorachai Nitayaphan

Roles Resources

Affiliation Royal Thai Army Expert, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), Bangkok, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuthithum

Roles Resources

Affiliation Vaccine Trial Centre, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, C/O Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Jason T. Kimata

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Lynn Soong

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Genoveffa Franchini

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Models and Vaccine Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Merlin Robb

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Jerome Kim

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, ROK

Nelson Michael

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Haitao Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

haihu@UTMB.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development and Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.