About the Authors

Volker Thiel

Volker.thiel@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Federal Department of Home Affairs, Institute of Virology and Immunology, Bern and Mittelhäusern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The author is Associate Editor of PLOS ONE and has handled the manuscript "Construction of an infectious horsepox virus vaccine from chemically synthesized DNA fragments" by Noyce et al. The author is a member of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety (SECB), a permanent federal advisory committee that advises the Federal Council and the federal agencies on the drafting of laws, ordinances, guidelines, and recommendations. This does not alter my adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.