About the Authors

Amos Markus

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Ilana Lebenthal-Loinger

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

In Hong Yang

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paul R. Kinchington

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ronald S. Goldstein

ron.goldstein@biu.ac.il

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSG PRK. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM ILL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IHY. Wrote the paper: RSG PRK AM ILL.