About the Authors

Julián Candia

candia@umd.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, IFLYSIB and CONICET, University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Ryan Maunu

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Meghan Driscoll

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Angélique Biancotto

Affiliations Center for Human Immunology, Autoimmunity and Inflammation, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Hematology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pradeep Dagur

Affiliation Hematology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

J. Philip McCoy Jr

Affiliations Center for Human Immunology, Autoimmunity and Inflammation, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Hematology Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

H. Nida Sen

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lai Wei

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amos Maritan

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padua, Italy

Kan Cao

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Robert B. Nussenblatt

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jayanth R. Banavar

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Wolfgang Losert

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB PD JPM HNS LW KC RBN. Performed the experiments: AB PD JPM HNS LW KC RBN. Analyzed the data: JC RM MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC RM MD. Wrote the paper: JC LW AM KC RBN JRB WL. Conceived and designed theoretical method: JC RM AM JRB WL.