About the Authors

James P. Roach

roachjp@umich.edu

Affiliation Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Eshel Ben-Jacob

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, and Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Leonard M. Sander

Affiliation Department of Physics & Center for Studies of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Michal R. Zochowski

Affiliations Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Physics & Center for Studies of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPR EBJ LMS MRZ. Performed the experiments: JPR. Analyzed the data: JPR. Wrote the paper: JPR EBJ LMS MRZ.