About the Authors

Silvano Furlan

silvano.furlan@iit.it

Affiliations Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy

Diego Comparini

Affiliation Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale - Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Marzena Ciszak

Affiliations Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale - Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy

Lucia Beccai

Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

Stefano Mancuso

Affiliation Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale - Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Barbara Mazzolai

Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF DC SM BM. Performed the experiments: SF DC. Analyzed the data: SF MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF DC MC. Wrote the paper: SF DC MC LB SM BM.