About the Authors

Samira Abbasi

Affiliations Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hamedan University of Technology, Hamedan, Iran

Amber E. Hudson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Selva K. Maran

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Ying Cao

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Ataollah Abbasi

Affiliation Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

Detlef H. Heck

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Dieter Jaeger

djaeger@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DJ DHH. Data curation: SA AEH YC DHH DJ. Formal analysis: SA DJ. Funding acquisition: DJ DHH. Investigation: SA SKM YC DHH DJ. Methodology: DJ SKM AEH SA YC DHH. Project administration: DJ DHH. Resources: DHH DJ. Software: SA AEH SKM DJ. Supervision: DJ DHH. Validation: SA AEH DJ. Visualization: SA DJ. Writing – original draft: DJ. Writing – review & editing: SA AEH SKM YC AA DHH DJ.