About the Authors

Kerstin Birke

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erion Lipo

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marco T. Birke

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rajendra Kumar-Singh

Rajendra.Kumar-Singh@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB MTB RKS. Performed the experiments: KB EL. Analyzed the data: KB MTB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKS. Wrote the paper: KB MTB RKS.