About the Authors

Patrizia Sommi

Affiliation Human Physiology Section, Department of Physiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Dhanya Cheerambathur

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ingrid Brust-Mascher

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alex Mogilner

mogilner@math.ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS DC IB AM. Performed the experiments: PS DC IB. Analyzed the data: PS DC IB AM. Wrote the paper: PS IB AM.