About the Authors

David Sprinzak

Contributed equally to this work with: David Sprinzak, Amit Lakhanpal

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Division of Biology and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Amit Lakhanpal

Contributed equally to this work with: David Sprinzak, Amit Lakhanpal

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Division of Biology and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Lauren LeBon

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Division of Biology and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Affiliation Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Michael B. Elowitz

melowitz@caltech.edu

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Division of Biology and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS AL JGO MBE. Performed the experiments: DS AL LL JGO. Wrote the paper: DS AL JGO MBE.