About the Authors

Robert Cantrup

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rajiv Dixit

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Elena Palmesino

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Stephan Bonfield

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tarek Shaker

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Nobuhiko Tachibana

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dawn Zinyk

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Sarah Dalesman

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Kazuhiro Yamakawa

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

William K. Stell

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rachel O. Wong

Affiliation Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Benjamin E. Reese

Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Artur Kania

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Yves Sauvé

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Carol Schuurmans

cschuurm@ucalgary.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC CS. Performed the experiments: RC RD EP SB TS NT DZ ROW YS. Analyzed the data: RC RD CS SB SD WKS ROW BER YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK KY BER YS WKS SD ROW CS. Wrote the paper: RC CS.