About the Authors

Saravanan Nandagopal

Contributed equally to this work with: Saravanan Nandagopal, Dan Wu

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Dan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Saravanan Nandagopal, Dan Wu

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Francis Lin

flin@physics.umanitoba.ca

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Funding support from CMC Microsystems does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL. Performed the experiments: SN DW. Analyzed the data: SN DW. Wrote the paper: SN DW FL. Performed the experimental studies: SN. Performed the modeling studies: DW. Analyzed the experimental data: DW. Designed and performed the research: FL.