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It remains unclear how memory engrams are altered by experience, such as new learning, to cause forgetting. Here, we report that short-term aversive memory in Drosophila is encoded by and retrieved from the mushroom body output neuron MBOn-γ2α'1. Pairing an odor with aversive electric shock creates a robust depression in the calcium response of MBOn-γ2α'1 and increases avoidance to the paired odor. Electric shock after learning, which activates the cognate dopamine neuron DAn-γ2α'1, restores the response properties of MBOn-γ2α'1 and causes behavioral forgetting. Conditioning with a second odor restores the responses of MBOn-γ2α'1 to a previously learned odor while depressing responses to the newly learned odor, showing that learning and forgetting can occur simultaneously. Moreover, optogenetic activation of DAn-γ2α'1 is sufficient for the bidirectional modulation of MBOn-γ2α'1 response properties. Thus, a single DAn can drive both learning and forgetting by bidirectionally modulating a cellular memory trace.
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