Daniel Choquet#
| Membership Number: | 4047 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iins.u-bordeaux.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - now Director of the LabEx BRAIN "Bordeaux Région Aquitaine Initiative for Neuroscience »
- 2011 - now Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience. UMR 5297 CNRS- Bordeaux University
- 2009 - now Director of the Bordeaux Imaging Center core facility, UMS CNRS-INSERM- Bordeaux University
- 1999 - 2010 Group leader at the CNRS, UMR 5091, laboratory “Cellular Physiology of Synapses”, Bordeaux University
- 1998 - now Research director at the CNRS, Bordeaux University
- 1996 - 1999 Junior group leader at the CNRS/ Bordeaux University. Recipient of an ATIP Grant
- 1994 - 1996 Post-doctoral stay at Duke University (N.C., USA) Supervisor Pr. M.P. Sheetz. Fellowship from EMBO
- 1990 Post-doctoral stay at Irvine University (CA, USA) Supervisor Pr. M. Cahalan
- 1988 - 1998 Research officer at the CNRS, Pasteur Institute
- 1984 - 1988 PhD-engineer fellowship from the French ministry of research
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Immunology
- Cell biology
- Imaging
- Neuroscience
- Cell biology
- Physiology
- PathoPhysiology
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of EMBO
- 2013 Advanced ERC grant from the European commission
- 2012 Chevalier de l'ordre national des Palmes Académiques
- 2011 Laureate of the "Victoire de la medecine" prize
- 2010 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Prix de la découverte science, Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux
- 2009 Silver Medal from the CNRS
- 2009 Nominated article of the year 2008 by the French society for Neuroscience
- 2008 Recipient of an ERC advanced research grant from the European commission
- 2007 Bauer Lectureship award, Brandeis University
- 2006 Labeled team by the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale
- 2004 Grand prix from the French Academy of Sciences, prix du CEA.
- 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
