Daniel Choquet - Curriculum Vitae#
Bordeaux University
Research director, CNRS
Education
- 1997 Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Bordeaux University
- 1994-1996 Sabbatical stay, Duke University (N.C., USA). EMBO Fellow
- 1990 Post-doctoral stay, Irvine University (CA, USA) Supervisor Pr. M. Cahalan
- 1988 PhD : Paris VI University. Option Pharmacology. Institut Pasteur
- 1984 Diploma from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris
Employment and Research Experience
- 2011- Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, UMR 5297 CNRS-Université Bordeaux Segalen
- 2011- Director of the Bordeaux Imaging Center, UMS 3420 CNRS-University of Bordeaux-INSERM
- 2011- Director of the Excellence Cluster BRAIN (Bordeaux Région Aquitaine Initiative for Neuroscience)
- 2007-2010 Adjunct director of the laboratory Cellular Physiology of Synapses, UMR 5091
- 1999-2010 Group leader CNRS, “Cellular Physiology of Synapses”, Bordeaux University
- 1998- Research director at the CNRS
- 1996-1999 Junior group leader at the CNRS/ Bordeaux University. Recipient of an ATIP Grant
- 1988-1998 Research officer at the CNRS
Honors and Awards
- 2014 Member of EMBO
- 2013 Advanced ERC grant from the European commission
- 2012 Chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes académiques
- 2011 Victoires de la medicine 2011
- 2010 Member of the French Academy of Science
- 2010 Prix de l'Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux
- 2009 Silver Medal from the CNRS
- 2009 Advanced ERC grant from the European commission
- 2007 Bauer Lectureship award, Brandeis University
- 2004 Grand prix from the French Academy of Sciences, prix du CEA.
- 2002 Pierre-Bois Lectureship award, McGill University
- 1997 Research prize from the « Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale »
- 1994 Prize from the «société de secours des amis de la science »
- 1994 Petit-Dormoy prize from the French Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Bronze medal from the CNRS
Research
- 1984-86: Neuroscience - patch clamp recordings of GABA and Glycine activated currents
- 1984-1994: Immunology - Electrophysiological properties of lymphocytes studied by patch clamp
- 1991-1994: Immunology – Calcium imaging to study antigen responses in B Lymphocytes
- 1994-1996: Cell biology – high resolution video microscopy and particle tracking to study regulation of integrin anchoring to the cytoskeleton. Control by ligand binding and substrate rigidity
- 1999-2010: Cell biology – Regulation of cadherin and NCAMs interactions with the cytoskeleton
- 2000-present: Imaging - Development of single molecule and super resolution imaging techniques
- 1996-present: Neuroscience / Cell biology - Neurotransmitter receptors trafficking, role in synaptogenesis and synaptic plasticity. Dynamic imaging of movements of receptors in living neurons. Regulation by neuronal activity and scaffolding proteins
- 1999-present: Neuroscience / Cell biology - Role of adhesion proteins in the organization of glutamate receptors
- 2007-present: Neuroscience / Physiology - Functional impact of AMPA receptor dynamic organization in synaptic transmission
- 2007-present: Neuroscience / PathoPhysiology - Interaction between AMPA receptor trafficking and synapse dysfunction
Current other Administrative functions
- 2012- Member of the Council of Scientists, HFSP
- 2008- Member of the scientific advisory board of the ICeMS, Kyoto