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Speaking with André Fiala about his two recent papers in Biology Open and Cell Reports:

Poppinga, H., Mika, R., Schwartz, M., Schuldiner, O., Meltzer, H., & Fiala, A. (2026). No evidence for aversive associative olfactory memory through metamorphosis in Drosophila. Biology Open, 15(8), bio062512. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062512

Rachad, E. Y., Deimel, S. H., Epple, L., Gadgil, Y. V., Jürgensen, A.-M., Springer, M., Lin, C.-H., Nawrot, M. P., Lin, S., & Fiala, A. (2025). Functional dissection of a neuronal brain circuit mediating higher-order associative learning. Cell Reports, 44(5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115593

Also mentioned:

Tabone, C. J., & de Belle, J. S. (2011). Second-order conditioning in Drosophila. Learning & Memory, 18(4), 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.2035411

André Fiala is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior at University of Göttingen Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institute. For more info:

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/186242.html

Recorded on Sept 9, 2026 at Neurofly 2026

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Speaking with Wolf Huetteroth about his seminal paper in Current Biology showing fly play-like behaviour.

Triphan, T., Ferreira, C. H., & Huetteroth, W. (2025). Play-like behavior exhibited by the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology, 35(5), 1145-1155.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.025

Wolf Huetteroth is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University. For more info:

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/wolf-huetteroth/

Recorded on Sept 8, 2026 at Neurofly 2026

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Speaking with Professor Mikko Juusola about his new study in Nature Communications.

Mansour, N., Takalo, J., Kemppainen, J., Bridges, A. D., MaBouDi, H., Asgar Bohra, A., Anielska, K., Vasas, V., Robert, T., Yi Bu, B., Shukla, S., Zhou, Y., Kittelmann, M., Ouwendijk, J., Mantell, J., Lawson, M., de Polavieja, G., Duke, E., Lazar, A. A., … Juusola, M. (2026). Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour. Nature Communications, 17(1), 3863. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72509-2

Professor Mikko Juusola is a Professor in Systems Neuroscience at the School of Biosciences at the University of Sheffield. For more info:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9XUdVR8AAAAJ

Lab Website: https://cognition.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/people/mikko-juusola

Heliox AI-generated podcast covering this paper: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/why-houseflies-see-faster-than-ai

Recorded on July 16, 2026

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Speaking with Andrew Lin about his two new papers in The Journal of Physiology

Bergmann, Gregor A., Melissa W. Tan, Katie Greenin-Whitehead, Philippe J. Fischer, Thomas C. Cozens, and Andrew C. Lin. 2026. “Conflicting Adaptations in an Inhibitory Feedback Circuit.” The Journal of Physiology 604(7): 3005–31. doi:10.1113/JP290394.

Greenin-Whitehead, Katie, Eyal Rozenfeld, Anthony Moreno-Sanchez, Melissa W. Tan, Kurtulus Kullu, Jessica Ausborn, Moshe Parnas, and Andrew C. Lin. “Ectopic Sodium Channel Expression Decreases Excitability of Drosophila Kenyon Cells.” The Journal of Physiology n/a(n/a). doi:10.1113/JP288790.

Andrew is a senior lecturer at University of Sheffield. For more from Andrew:

https://www.aclinlab.org/

https://x.com/andrew_c_lin

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewclin.bsky.social

Recorded on May 15, 2026

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Speaking with Professor James Marshall about his two sister studies in eLife.

MaBouDi, HaDi, Mark Roper, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mikko Juusola, Lars Chittka, and James AR Marshall. “A Neuromorphic Model of Active Vision Shows How Spatiotemporal Encoding in Lobula Neurons Can Aid Pattern Recognition in Bees.” eLife 14 (July 2025): e89929. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89929.

MaBouDi, HaDi, Jasmin Richter, Marie-Geneviève Guiraud, Mark Roper, James AR Marshall, and Lars Chittka. “Active Vision of Bees in a Simple Pattern Discrimination Task.” eLife 14 (April 2025): e106332. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106332.

Professor James Marshall is a Professor in Computer Science, Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, and co-founder Founder Science Officer at Opteran Technologies. For more info:

https://brainsonboard.co.uk/

https://opteran.com/

Recorded on Sept 2, 2025

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Introducing Quite Curious and your host: Dr. Ariel K. Frame, PhD