About the Authors

Maria Grazia Giansanti

mariagrazia.giansanti@uniroma1.it (MGG), todd.blankenship@du.edu (JTB)

Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy

Timothy E. Vanderleest

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Cayla E. Jewett

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Stefano Sechi

Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy

Anna Frappaolo

Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università Sapienza di Roma, Roma, Italy

Lacramioara Fabian

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Carmen C. Robinett

Affiliation Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Julie A. Brill

Affiliations Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dinah Loerke

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Margaret T. Fuller

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

J. Todd Blankenship

mariagrazia.giansanti@uniroma1.it (MGG), todd.blankenship@du.edu (JTB)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGG JAB DL MTF JTB. Performed the experiments: MGG TEV CEJ SS AF LF CCR DL JTB. Analyzed the data: MGG TEV CEJ SS AF LF CCR JAB DL MTF JTB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGG TEV CEJ SS AF LF CCR DL JTB. Wrote the paper: MGG TEV LF JAB DL MTF JTB.