About the Authors

Carola Städele

Affiliations Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States of America

Stefanie Heigele

Current address: Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Wolfgang Stein

wstein@neurobiologie.de

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS SH WS. Performed the experiments: CS SH WS. Analyzed the data: CS WS. Wrote the paper: CS WS. Dynamic clamp: CS WS. Computer models: WS CS.