About the Authors

Connie C. Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Connie C. Wong, Miguel Ramalho-Santos

Current address: Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Regeneration Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alexandre Gaspar-Maia

Affiliations Institute for Regeneration Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Doctoral Program in Biomedicine and Experimental Biology, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Miguel Ramalho-Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Connie C. Wong, Miguel Ramalho-Santos

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mrsantos@diabetes.ucsf.edu (MR); reneer@stanford.edu (RR)

Affiliations Institute for Regeneration Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Renee A. Reijo Pera

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mrsantos@diabetes.ucsf.edu (MR); reneer@stanford.edu (RR)

Current address: Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Regeneration Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW MR. Performed the experiments: CW MR. Analyzed the data: CW MR RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW AG. Wrote the paper: CW RR.