About the Authors

Melike Lakadamyali

melike.lakadamyali@icfo.es

Current address: Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelledefels (Barcelona), Spain

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hazen Babcock

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark Bates

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaowei Zhuang

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Jeff Lichtman

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML XZ JL HB MB. Performed the experiments: ML HB MB. Analyzed the data: ML HB MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML HB MB XZ JL. Wrote the paper: ML XZ JL.