Daniel Choquet

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).

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.

From 1994 to 1996, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University.

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 and that these movements in and out synapses participate to synaptic plasticity, a phenomenon thought to underlie learning and memory.

Choquet's current work involves attempting to understand the role of receptor movements in neurodegenerative diseases.

The following year, in 1997, he was promoted to research director at the CNRS.

He is the director of the Bordeaux Imaging Center and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience.

His recent research work has earned him the 2004 CEA Prize and the 2009 CNRS Silver Medal.

He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences on November 30, 2010.

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.