About the Authors

Cibele V. Falkenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Cibele V. Falkenberg, Evren U. Azeloglu

Current address: Mechanical Engineering Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Affiliation R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling, U. Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Evren U. Azeloglu

Contributed equally to this work with: Cibele V. Falkenberg, Evren U. Azeloglu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Mark Stothers

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Thomas J. Deerinck

Affiliation National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Yibang Chen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

John C. He

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Mark H. Ellisman

Affiliation National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States of America

James C. Hone

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ravi Iyengar

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, and Division of Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

Leslie M. Loew

les@volt.uchc.edu

Affiliation R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling, U. Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CVF LML RI EUA. Data curation: CVF EUA. Formal analysis: CVF EUA. Funding acquisition: EUA JCHe LML RI MHE. Investigation: CVF EUA TJD. Methodology: CVF EUA MHE LML RI. Project administration: RI LML MHE JCHe. Resources: MS MHE TJD JCHo YC. Supervision: RI LML. Validation: CVF EUA RI LML. Visualization: CVF EUA. Writing – original draft: CVF EUA. Writing – review & editing: CVF EUA RI LML.