About the Authors

Roberto Reif

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto Reif, Jia Qin, Lei Shi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jia Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto Reif, Jia Qin, Lei Shi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lei Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto Reif, Jia Qin, Lei Shi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Suzan Dziennis

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zhongwei Zhi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alfred L. Nuttall

Affiliation Oregon Hearing Research Center, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Ruikang K. Wang

wangrk@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR. Performed the experiments: RR JQ LS. Analyzed the data: RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR JQ LS SD ZZ. Wrote the paper: RR JQ LS SD ZZ ALN RKW.