About the Authors

Chen-Hsun Tsai

Affiliation McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Catherine Baranowski

Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jonathan Livny

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathleen A. McDonough

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, United States of America

Joseph T. Wade

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, United States of America

Lydia M. Contreras

lcontrer@che.utexas.edu

Affiliation McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAM JTW LMC. Performed the experiments: CHT CB LMC. Analyzed the data: CHT CB JTW LMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL KAM JTW LMC. Wrote the paper: CHT JTW LMC.