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#2 - Deciphering conflict in fly brains & NaChBac technical advice for fly neurobiologists, featuring Andrew Lin

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 [https://doi.org/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 [https://doi.org/10.1113/JP288790]. Andrew is a senior lecturer at University of Sheffield [https://sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/people/academic-staff/andrew-lin]. For more from Andrew: https://www.aclinlab.org/ [https://www.aclinlab.org/] https://x.com/andrew_c_lin [https://x.com/andrew_c_lin] https://bsky.app/profile/andrewclin.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/andrewclin.bsky.social] Recorded on May 15, 2026 Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot

#1 - How to see and think like a bee, featuring James Marshall

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 [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 [https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106332]. Professor James Marshall is a Professor in Computer Science [https://sheffield.ac.uk/cs/people/academic/james-marshall], Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence [https://sheffield.ac.uk/machine-intelligence], and co-founder Founder Science Officer at Opteran Technologies [https://opteran.com/]. For more info: https://brainsonboard.co.uk/ https://opteran.com/ Recorded on Sept 2, 2025 Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot

Introduction to Quite Curious with Ariel Frame

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