About the Authors

Timon Hussain

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Melina B. Mastrodimos

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sharat C. Raju

Affiliation Division of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Heather L. Glasgow

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael Whitney

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Beth Friedman

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Moore

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Kleinfeld

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Section of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paul Steinbach

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Karen Messer

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Minya Pu

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Roger Y. Tsien

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Quyen T. Nguyen

q1nguyen@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Division of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH MBM MW RYT QTN. Performed the experiments: TH MBM SCR HLG JDM PS QTN. Analyzed the data: TH MBM SCR HLG MW BF JDM DK PS KM MP RYT QTN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH MBM SCR HLG MW BF JDM DK PS KM MP RYT QTN. Wrote the paper: TH MBM SCR HLG MW BF JDM DK PS KM MP RYT QTN.