About the Authors

Rui Wang-Sattler

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rui.wang-sattler@gsf.de (RW); f.kafatos@imperial.ac.uk (FK)

Current address: GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany,

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephanie Blandin

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Ye Ning

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Claudia Blass

Current address: German Cancer Research Center, Signaling and Functional Genomics, Heidelberg, Germany,

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Guimogo Dolo

Affiliation Faculté de Médicine, de Pharmacie et d'Odonto-Stomatologie, Université du Mali, Bamako, Mali

Yeya T. Touré

Current address: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Faculté de Médicine, de Pharmacie et d'Odonto-Stomatologie, Université du Mali, Bamako, Mali

Alessandra della Torre

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Parassitologia, Università degli Studi di Roma-La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

Gregory C. Lanzaro

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Lars M. Steinmetz

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Fotis C. Kafatos

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rui.wang-sattler@gsf.de (RW); f.kafatos@imperial.ac.uk (FK)

Affiliation Section of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Liangbiao Zheng

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK RW LZ. Performed the experiments: RW CB. Analyzed the data: RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW GD YT Ad GL. Wrote the paper: FK RW LZ SB Ad GL LS YN.