About the Authors

Asaf Madi

Contributed equally to this work with: Asaf Madi, Dror Y. Kenett

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dror Y. Kenett

Contributed equally to this work with: Asaf Madi, Dror Y. Kenett

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sharron Bransburg-Zabary

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yifat Merbl

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Francisco J. Quintana

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alfred I. Tauber

Affiliation School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irun R. Cohen

irun.cohen@weizmann.ac.il (IRC); eshelbj@gmail.com (EBC)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Eshel Ben-Jacob

irun.cohen@weizmann.ac.il (IRC); eshelbj@gmail.com (EBC)

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical and Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Eshel Ben-Jacob is a PLoS ONE Academic Editor.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YM FJQ IRC. Performed the experiments: YM FJQ. Analyzed the data: AM DYK SBZ EBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM DYK SBZ EBJ. Wrote the paper: AM DYK AIT IRC EBJ.