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André Fiala is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect Utilization and Effects, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and Retinal Development and Disorders.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, Learning & Memory, Frontiers in Physiology, and Cell.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by André Fiala are:

  • Aralar Sequesters GABA into Hyperactive Mitochondria, Causing Social Behavior Deficits, 2020, Cell
  • Visualization of a Distributed Synaptic Memory Code in the Drosophila Brain, 2020, Neuron
  • Circuit reorganization in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx accompanies memory consolidation, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Unc13A and Unc13B contribute to the decoding of distinct sensory information in Drosophila, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Visualization of learning-induced synaptic plasticity in output neurons of the Drosophila mushroom body γ-lobe, 2022, Scientific Reports

André Fiala's frequent coauthors consist of Clare E. Hancock, Annekathrin Widmann, El Yazid Rachad, Bart R. H. Geurten, and Stephan Hubertus Deimel.

Best Publications

  • Light-induced activation of distinct modulatory neurons triggers appetitive or aversive learning in Drosophila larvae.

    Christian Schroll;Thomas Riemensperger;Daniel Bucher;Julia Ehmer

  • The neural basis of Drosophila gravity-sensing and hearing

    Azusa Kamikouchi;Hidehiko K. Inagaki;Hidehiko K. Inagaki;Thomas Effertz;Thomas Effertz;Oliver Hendrich;Oliver Hendrich

  • Restoring polyamines protects from age-induced memory impairment in an autophagy-dependent manner.

    Varun K Gupta;Lisa Scheunemann;Tobias Eisenberg;Sara Mertel

  • Punishment prediction by dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila.

    Thomas Riemensperger;Thomas Völler;Patrick Stock;Erich Buchner

  • Genetically Expressed Cameleon in Drosophila melanogaster Is Used to Visualize Olfactory Information in Projection Neurons

    André Fiala;Thomas Spall;Sören Diegelmann;Beate Eisermann

  • Channelrhodopsin-2–XXL, a powerful optogenetic tool for low-light applications

    Alexej Dawydow;Ronnie Gueta;Dmitrij Ljaschenko;Sybille Ullrich

  • A Single Dopamine Pathway Underlies Progressive Locomotor Deficits in a Drosophila Model of Parkinson Disease

    Thomas Riemensperger;Abdul-Raouf Issa;Ulrike Pech;Hélène Coulom

  • Light Activation of an Innate Olfactory Avoidance Response in Drosophila

    Greg S.B. Suh;Shlomo Ben-Tabou de Leon;Hiromu Tanimoto;André Fiala

  • Pharmacological dissociation between the reinforcing, sensitizing, and response-releasing functions of reward in honeybee classical conditioning.

    Randolf Menzel;Andrea Heyne;Cordula Kinzel;Bertram Gerber

  • Olfaction and olfactory learning in Drosophila: recent progress.

    André Fiala

  • Reversible Downregulation of Protein Kinase A during Olfactory Learning Using Antisense Technique Impairs Long-Term Memory Formation in the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

    André Fiala;Uli Müller;Randolf Menzel

  • Are dendrites in Drosophila homologous to vertebrate dendrites

    Natalia Sánchez-Soriano;Wolfgang Bottenberg;André Fiala;Ulrike Haessler

  • SIFamide Translates Hunger Signals into Appetitive and Feeding Behavior in Drosophila

    Carlotta Martelli;Ulrike Pech;Simon Kobbenbring;Dennis Pauls

  • The development of motor coordination in Drosophila embryos.

    Sarah Crisp;Jan Felix Evers;André Fiala;Michael Bate

  • Identified Serotonin-Releasing Neurons Induce Behavioral Quiescence and Suppress Mating in Drosophila

    Atefeh Pooryasin;André Fiala

  • Presynapses in Kenyon cell dendrites in the mushroom body calyx of Drosophila.

    Frauke Christiansen;Christina Zube;Till F. M. Andlauer;Carolin Wichmann

  • Spermidine Suppresses Age-Associated Memory Impairment by Preventing Adverse Increase of Presynaptic Active Zone Size and Release.

    Varun K. Gupta;Ulrike Pech;Anuradha Bhukel;Anuradha Bhukel;Andreas Fulterer;Andreas Fulterer

  • Aralar Sequesters GABA into Hyperactive Mitochondria, Causing Social Behavior Deficits

    Alexandros K. Kanellopoulos;Vittoria Mariano;Vittoria Mariano;Marco Spinazzi;Young Jae Woo;Young Jae Woo

  • Steroid-induced microRNA let-7 acts as a spatio-temporal code for neuronal cell fate in the developing Drosophila brain

    Mariya M Kucherenko;Jonas Barth;André Fiala;Halyna R Shcherbata

  • Optogenetically Induced Olfactory Stimulation in Drosophila Larvae Reveals the Neuronal Basis of Odor-Aversion behavior

    Dennis Bellmann;Arnd Richardt;Robert Freyberger;Nidhi Nuwal

  • Localization of the Contacts Between Kenyon Cells and Aminergic Neurons in the Drosophila melanogaster Brain Using SplitGFP Reconstitution

    Ulrike Pech;Atefeh Pooryasin;Serge Birman;André Fiala

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan J. Sigrist
Stephan J. Sigrist Freie Universität Berlin
Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel Freie Universität Berlin
Bertram Gerber
Bertram Gerber Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Silke Sachse
Silke Sachse Max Planck Society
Kei Ito
Kei Ito University of Cologne
Hiromu Tanimoto
Hiromu Tanimoto Tohoku University
Chun-Fang Wu
Chun-Fang Wu University of Iowa
Bill S. Hansson
Bill S. Hansson Max Planck Society
C. Giovanni Galizia
C. Giovanni Galizia University of Konstanz
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg Radboud University

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