About the Authors

Shaoying Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoying Lu, Tae-jin Kim

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Tae-jin Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoying Lu, Tae-jin Kim

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Chih-En Chen

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Mingxing Ouyang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Jihye Seong

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaoling Liao

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Institute of Biomaterials and Living Cell Imaging Technology, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Yingxiao Wang

yingxiao@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL T-JK MO YW. Performed the experiments: SL T-JK MO C-EC JS. Analyzed the data: SL MO C-EC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL MO C-EC. Wrote the paper: SL T-JK YW.