About the Authors

Brenda L. Bloodgood

Contributed equally to this work with: Brenda L. Bloodgood, Andrew J. Giessel

Affiliation 1 Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew J. Giessel

Contributed equally to this work with: Brenda L. Bloodgood, Andrew J. Giessel

Affiliation 1 Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bernardo L. Sabatini

bsabatini@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation 1 Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: BLB AJG BLS. Performed the experiments: BLB AJG. Analyzed the data: BLB AJG BLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLB AJG BLS. Wrote the paper: BLB AJG BLS.