Daniel Choquet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 April 1962 |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | CNRS and others |
Daniel Choquet (born 23 in Paris, France) is a French neuroscientist. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences Académie des sciences française since 2011.
Biography
editDaniel Choquet is the son of the physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and the mathematician Gustave Choquet. He is the grand-son of the physicist Georges Bruhat.
He obtained his baccalauréat in 1979. From 1981 to 1984, he studied at the École centrale Paris, from which he graduated with a major in Bioengineering.
In 1988, he obtained his PhD from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, option pharmacology, under the supervision of Dr. Henri Korn, à the Institut Pasteur, entitled “Control of potassium channels in lymphocytes by hormones and second messengers”. He obtained a position as research officer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1988. From 1994 to 1996, he is a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University (N.C., USA), under the supervision of Pr. M.P. Sheetz. He is promoted to research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1997.
Since 1996, he develops his research activity in research laboratories from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Bordeaux.
He is the director since January 1st, 2011 of the Bordeaux Imaging Center[1] and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience[2].
He has been elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences Académie des sciences française Novembre 30, 2010.
Research accomplishments
editDaniel Choquet is a biologist, specialist of nanoscopic imaging and of the dynamic organization of receptors in neurons. After training as an ingeneer at the École centrale Paris, Daniel Choquet has decided to turn to biology and did a PhD at the interface between neuroscience and immunology at the Pasteur institute, under the supervision of Henri Korn. His early work on the discovery and the properties of ion channels of B lymphocytes also earned him the bronze Medal of the CNRS in 1990. A stay in the United States between 1994 and 1996 at Duke University allows him to discover the unexpected ability of cells to respond and adapt to the mechanical properties of their environment. Since his arrival in Bordeaux in 1996, his research focuses on the fundamental properties of the transmission of nerve impulses in the brain and the development of new nanoscale imaging techniques. Using these approaches, he has observed and demonstrated the existence of the movement of receptors in living neurons, a large step in the understanding of how synapses work. He found that the movement of receptors controls the transmission of information in the brain. He now focuses on understanding the role of the movement of these receptors in some neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Huntington. He received the 2004 CEA Prize and in 2009 the silver medal of the CNRS [3]. He set up in 2002 a cell imaging platform, "PICIN", one of the pillars of the new Bordeaux Imaging Center "BIC" (Bordeaux Imaging Center). Labeled at the national level, the centre includes 15 engineers and proposes a panel of techniques from electron microscopy to in vivo Imaging. Researchers of Aquitaine thus have access to ultra-high resolution imaging techniques [4]. Daniel Choquet works at the crossing of several disciplines. The creation of the interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroSciences (IINS) in the Neurocampus brings together 100 researchers from diverse backgrounds (chemistry, biology, computer, physical) to meet the great challenge of understanding the functioning of the brain [5], [6].
Distinctions
editDaniel Choquet has been the recipient of :
- 2011: Laureate of the "Victoires de la médecine 2011" [7]
- 2010: Elected member of the French Academy of Sciences, integrative biology section
- 2009: Silver medal of the CNRS [8]
- 2009: Nominated author of the year 2008 by the French Society for Neurosciences
- 2008: Laureate of an "ERC advanced research grant" from the European Commission
- 2007: Laureate of the "Bauer Lectureship award", Brandeis University
- 2006: Labeled FRM team by the "Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale"
- 2004: Grand prix de l'Académie des Sciences, prize of the CEA[9]
- 1997: Research prize form the [France|Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale]]
- 1994: Prize of the "société de secours des amis de la science"
- 1994: Petit-Dormoy prize of the Académie des Sciences
- 1990: Bronze medal from the CNRS
Private life
editDaniel Choquet is married and father of three children
See also
editExternal links
editRéférences
edit- ^ "web site of the Bordeaux Imaging Center". Université de Bordeaux Segalen. 2011.
- ^ "Site internet de l'Institut Interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences". Université de Bordeaux Segalen. 2011.
- ^ text presented on Daniel Choquet at the awarding of the [silver medal http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/prix/docs/argent2009/ChoquetD.pdf]
- ^ "presentation of the Bordeaux Imaging Center on the site of the University Bordeaux Segalen". University of Bordeaux Segalen. 2011.
- ^ "presentation of the team of Daniel choquet on the site of the laboratory". University of Bordeaux Segalen. 2011.
- ^ "presentation of Daniel choquet on the site of the University Bordeaux Segalen". University of Bordeaux Segalen. 2011.
- ^ "Presentation of the 2011 Laureates of the "victoires de la médecine"". 2011.
- ^ "Presentation of the Silver medal 2009" (PDF). web site of the CNRS. 2011.
- ^ "Présentation des prix 2004 de l'académie des sciences" (PDF). site de l'académie des sciences. 2012.