Her collaborators include senior author of the Nature Neuroscience paper Hongjun Song, Guo-li Ming, Jiaqi Sun, Zhexing Wen, Gerald J. Sun, Derek Hsu, Chun Zhong, and Heydar Davoudi, and Kimberly Christian of Johns Hopkins, and Jonathan Moss and Nicolas Toni of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Fondation Leenards in Switzerland.