About the Authors

Daniel A. Nagode

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel A. Nagode, Ai-Hui Tang

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ai-Hui Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel A. Nagode, Ai-Hui Tang

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Miranda A. Karson

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Matthias Klugmann

Affiliation Translational Neuroscience Facility, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bradley E. Alger

balgerlab@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BEA DAN AHT. Performed the experiments: DAN AHT. Analyzed the data: DAN AHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAK MK. Wrote the paper: BEA DAN AHT MAK.