About the Authors

Ju Lu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

John C. Fiala

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeff W. Lichtman

jeff@mcb.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWL JL. Performed the experiments: JL JCF. Analyzed the data: JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JCF. Wrote the paper: JWL JL.