Susanne Becker is an assistant professor in the department of cognitive and clinical neuroscience at the Central Institute of Mental Health at Heidelberg University.

Warren Darling is a professor and chair of the department of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa.

Weixin Zhong is a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing.

Wenliang Zhou received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in the laboratory of Srdjan Antic and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in Marina Picciotto’s laboratory.

Will Adler is a PhD student at New York University and founder of the Scientist Action and Advocacy Network.

William Ross is a professor in the physiology department at New York Medical College.

Wolfgang Maass is a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at Graz University in Austria.

Xiao-Yue Zhu is a PhD Student at New York University-Shanghai. She carried out some experiments in this study as part of her undergraduate senior honors project at the University of St Andrews.

Yukari H. Takeo is a project instructor in the physiology department of Keio University School of Medicine.

Zeus Gracia-Tabuenca is a PhD candidate in biomedical sciences, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).