About the Authors

Jennifer D. Helble

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Julie E. McCarthy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Machlan Sawden

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael N. Starnbach

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Linden T. Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Linden.Hu@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of the manuscript have the following competing interests: LTH receives support for contract research services through Tufts University from companies including Moderna, Sanofi, Tarsus, and Massbiologics for vaccine and drug development unrelated to the content of this manuscript. All other authors report no competing interests.