About the Authors

Harald Kempf

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany

Haralampos Hatzikirou

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Marcus Bleicher

Affiliation Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany

Michael Meyer-Hermann

mmh@theoretical-biology.de

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Department of Life Sciences, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK MMH. Performed the experiments: HK. Analyzed the data: HK HH MB MMH. Wrote the paper: HK MMH.