#5 - What Can Flies Remember? Higher Order Learning and Memory Through Metamorphosis, featuring André Fiala

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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