About the Authors

Ramaswamy Krishnan

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chan Young Park

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yu-Chun Lin

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jere Mead

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard T. Jaspers

Affiliation Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Xavier Trepat

Affiliation Unitat de Biofisica i Bioenginyeria, Universitat de Barcelona – IBEC, Barcelona, Spain

Guillaume Lenormand

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dhananjay Tambe

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander V. Smolensky

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew H. Knoll

Affiliation Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

James P. Butler

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Fredberg

jfredber@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK CP GL JPB JJF. Performed the experiments: RK YCL DT AVS. Analyzed the data: RK CP RTJ XT GL JPB JJF. Wrote the paper: RK JM XT AK JPB JJF.