About the Authors

Kshitij Wagh

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Affiliations Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Carolyn Williamson

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and NHLS, Cape Town, South Africa

Alex Robles

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Madeleine Bayne

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jetta Garrity

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Rist

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cecilia Rademeyer

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and NHLS, Cape Town, South Africa

Hyejin Yoon

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Alan Lapedes

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Hongmei Gao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kelli Greene

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark K. Louder

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rui Kong

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Salim Abdool Karim

Affiliations University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, Durban, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Dennis R. Burton

Affiliation The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dan H. Barouch

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

John R. Mascola

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lynn Morris

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), NHLS, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

David C. Montefiori

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Bette Korber

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael S. Seaman

mseaman@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSS KW BK DCM. Performed the experiments: AR MB JG MR. Analyzed the data: KW BK MSS TB AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKL RK SAK DRB DHB MCN JRM LM CW CR HY. Wrote the paper: MSS KW BK DCM. Coordinated and obtained samples for study: HG KG.