About the Authors

Keith C. Summa

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith C. Summa, Robin M. Voigt, Fred W. Turek, Ali Keshavarzian

ksumma@fsm.northwestern.edu

Affiliations Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Robin M. Voigt

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith C. Summa, Robin M. Voigt, Fred W. Turek, Ali Keshavarzian

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Christopher B. Forsyth

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maliha Shaikh

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kate Cavanaugh

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Yueming Tang

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Martha Hotz Vitaterna

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Shiwen Song

Affiliation American Society for Clinical Pathology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Fred W. Turek

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith C. Summa, Robin M. Voigt, Fred W. Turek, Ali Keshavarzian

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Ali Keshavarzian

Contributed equally to this work with: Keith C. Summa, Robin M. Voigt, Fred W. Turek, Ali Keshavarzian

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK FWT KCS RMV CBF MHV. Performed the experiments: KCS RMV CBF MS KC YT MHV. Analyzed the data: KCS RMV CBF MS KC YT MHV SS FWT AK. Wrote the paper: KCS RMV FWT AK.