About the Authors

Michael J. Cox

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Martin Allgaier

Current address: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Byron Taylor

Current address: University Of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Marshall S. Baek

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yvonne J. Huang

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rebecca A. Daly

Affiliations Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ulas Karaoz

Affiliation Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Gary L. Andersen

Affiliation Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ronald Brown

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kei E. Fujimura

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Brian Wu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Diem Tran

Affiliation Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jonathan Koff

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mary Ellen Kleinhenz

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dennis Nielson

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eoin L. Brodie

Affiliation Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Susan V. Lynch

susan.lynch@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC ELB SVL. Performed the experiments: MA BT MB. Analyzed the data: MC RD UK KEF ELB SVL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH GLA RB BW DT JK MEK DN ELB. Wrote the paper: MC ELB SVL.