About the Authors

Chen-Hui Chen

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexander F. Merriman

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeremiah Savage

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Human Disease Modeling, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason Willer

Affiliation Center for Human Disease Modeling, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Taylor Wahlig

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Nicholas Katsanis

Affiliation Center for Human Disease Modeling, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Viravuth P. Yin

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America

Kenneth D. Poss

kenneth.poss@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHC VPY KDP. Performed the experiments: CHC AFM JS JW TW VPY. Analyzed the data: CHC AFM JS TW KDP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW NK. Wrote the paper: CHC KDP.