About the Authors

Zengcai V. Guo

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

S. Andrew Hires

Present address: Section of Neurobiology and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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

Nuo Li

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

Daniel H. O'Connor

Present address: The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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

Takaki Komiyama

Present address: Section of Neurobiology and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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

Eran Ophir

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

Daniel Huber

Affiliations Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Claudia Bonardi

Affiliation Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Karin Morandell

Affiliation Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Diego Gutnisky

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

Simon Peron

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

Ning-long Xu

Present address: Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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

James Cox

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

Karel Svoboda

svobodak@janelia.hhmi.org

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZVG SAH NL DHO TK EO DH CB KM DG SP NX JC KS. Performed the experiments: ZVG SAH NL DHO TK EO DH CB KM DG SP NX JC KS. Analyzed the data: ZVG SAH NL DHO TK EO DH CB KM DG SP NX JC KS. Wrote the paper: ZVG KS.