Quite Curious

About Quite Curious

Quite Curious is a science communication podcast illuminating findings in biology, neuroscience, cognition, brain studies, aging, and more! Dr. Ariel Frame, PhD, speaks with authors of new and upcoming research about their science. As a neurobiology researcher, Ariel hosts enlightening discussions providing researchers a taste of work they plan to read more about while enabling folks of any vocation to learn about fascinating science.

Publisher

Ariel K. Frame

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   #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 (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 (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 (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 (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/186242.html) Recorded on Sept 9, 2026 at Neurofly 2026 Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io (https://freebeats.io) Produced By White Hot

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   #4 - Flies Just Want to Have Fun, featuring Wolf Huetteroth

   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 (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/ (https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/wolf-huetteroth/) Recorded on Sept 8, 2026 at Neurofly 2026 Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io (https://freebeats.io) Produced By White Hot

3. 

   18 Jul 2026

   #3 - Delayed reality? Houseflies suggest less delay than we thought, featuring Mikko Juusola

   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 (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 (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=9XUdVR8AAAAJ) Lab Website: https://cognition.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/people/mikko-juusola (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 (https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/why-houseflies-see-faster-than-ai) Recorded on July 16, 2026 Theme Song Provided By https://freebeats.io (https://freebeats.io) Produced By White Hot

4. 

   17 May 2026

   #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

5. 

   2 Sept 2025

   #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

6. 

   22 Jul 2025

   Introduction to Quite Curious with Ariel Frame

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

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