Daniel Choquet | |
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Born | Paris, France | 23 April 1962
Nationality | French |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience |
Institutions | CNRS and others |
Daniel Choquet (born 1962) is a French neuroscientist.
Daniel Choquet is the son of the physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and the mathematician Gustave Choquet. He is the grandson of the physicist Georges Bruhat. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1979, followed by a degree in bioengineering from École centrale Paris in 1984. He obtained his P.hD. in 1988 from Pierre and Marie Curie University and studied pharmacology at the Pasteur Institute. That year, he started working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). From 1994 to 1996, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University. The following year, in 1997, he was promoted to research director at the CNRS. He is the director of the Bordeaux Imaging Center [1] and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience. [2] He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences on November 30, 2010. [3]
Choquet is a biologist, focusing on nanoscopic imaging and the organization of receptors in neurons. His early research included work on the properties of ion channels of B lymphocytes. This research work earned him the CNRS Bronze medal in 1990. During his post-doc at Duke, he discovered that cells can respond and adapt to the mechanical properties of their environment. [4]
Since 1996, he has researched the fundamental properties of the transmission of nerve impulses in the brain and developed new nanoscale imaging techniques. He discovered that receptors move in living neurons [5] [6] and that these movements in and out synapses participate to synaptic plasticity, [7] a phenomenon thought to underlie learning and memory. Choquet's current work involves attempting to understand the role of receptor movements in neurodegenerative diseases. His recent research work has earned him the 2004 CEA Prize and the 2009 CNRS Silver Medal. [8]
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The University of Bordeaux 1 was one of the four universities in the Academy of Bordeaux, together with the Bordeaux Segalen University, Michel de Montaigne University and Montesquieu University, and one of five in Aquitaine. On 1 January 2014, it merged with Bordeaux 2 and Bordeaux 4 to form the University of Bordeaux. It currently operates as the Talence campus of the merged University of Bordeaux.
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Gustave Choquet was a French mathematician.
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.
Charles Sadron, was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.
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Bernard Meunier is a French chemist and academic. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences since 1999.
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Aleksandra M. Walczak is a theoretical biophysicist. She works on stochastic gene expression at Ecole Normale Supérieure where she is a research director.
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Arthur Vigan is a French astrophysicist known for his work on the study of exoplanets using the direct imaging technique, and on the development of novel instrumentation related to that detection method. He is a full time researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and works at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille. In 2021 he received the CNRS Bronze Medal for his early career achievements.
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