About the Authors

Edgar Gutierrez

Contributed equally to this work with: Edgar Gutierrez, Eugene Tkachenko

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eugene Tkachenko

Contributed equally to this work with: Edgar Gutierrez, Eugene Tkachenko

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Achim Besser

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Prithu Sundd

Affiliation Division of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Klaus Ley

Affiliation Division of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gaudenz Danuser

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark H. Ginsberg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex Groisman

agroisman@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG ET AG. Performed the experiments: EG ET. Analyzed the data: EG ET AB GD AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB PS KL GD MHG. Wrote the paper: EG ET MHG AG.