About the Authors

Mark Niedringhaus

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Niedringhaus, Xin Chen

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Xin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Niedringhaus, Xin Chen

Affiliations Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Rhonda Dzakpasu

rd259@georgetown.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD MN. Performed the experiments: MN. Analyzed the data: RD MN XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD XC. Wrote the paper: RD MN.