About the Authors

Alessandro Esposito

aesposito@quantitative-microscopy.org

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Teresa Tiffert

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jakob M. A. Mauritz

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon Schlachter

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lawrence H. Bannister

Affiliation Centre for Ultrastructural Imaging, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

Clemens F. Kaminski

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, School of Advanced Optical Technologies, Max-Planck-Research Group, Division III, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Virgilio L. Lew

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE TT VLL. Performed the experiments: AE TT. Analyzed the data: AE. Wrote the paper: AE VLL. Performed the numerical simulations: AE JMM VLL. Contributed materials, analysis tools and textual editing: TT JMM SS LHB CK.