About the Authors

Wenwei Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenwei Xu, Roman Mezencev

Affiliation The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Roman Mezencev

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenwei Xu, Roman Mezencev

Affiliation School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Byungkyu Kim

Affiliation The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lijuan Wang

Affiliation School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John McDonald

Affiliation School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Todd Sulchek

todd.sulchek@me.gatech.edu

Affiliations The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX RM JM TS. Performed the experiments: WX RM BK LW TS. Analyzed the data: WX RM BK LW JM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WX RM BK LW JM TS. Wrote the paper: WX RM JM TS.