About the Authors

Theofilos Poutahidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Markus Kleinewietfeld

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Markus Kleinewietfeld

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Markus Kleinewietfeld

Affiliations Departments of Neurology and Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Smillie

Affiliation Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tatiana Levkovich

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alison Perrotta

Affiliation Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Siddheshvar Bhela

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Bernard J. Varian

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yassin M. Ibrahim

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica R. Lakritz

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sean M. Kearney

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antonis Chatzigiagkos

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

David A. Hafler

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); david.hafler@yale.edu (DAH); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliations Departments of Neurology and Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); david.hafler@yale.edu (DAH); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliations Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Erdman

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); david.hafler@yale.edu (DAH); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP MK EJA DAH SEE. Performed the experiments: TL TP BJV YMI JRL MK SB SMK AC SEE AP. Analyzed the data: TP CS MK DAH EJA SEE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP CS EJA. Wrote the paper: TP MK CS DAH EJA SEE.