Jean-Pierre Mothet#
| Membership Number: | 5383 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lumin.universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4991-0614 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-pierre-mothet-655b0960/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - 2019 Senior Research Visiting Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 2018 - now Team leader ‘Biophotonics & Synapse Physiopathology’ CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, France
- 2014 - now CNRS Director of Research
- 2012 - 2015 President of the French Club des Cellules Gliales (French Glial Network Society)
- 2011 - 2017 Team leader 'Gliotransmission & Synaptopathies' CRN2M UMR7286 CNRS - Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- 2006 - 2011 Senior CNRS Investigator (CR1), Neurocentre Magendie INSERM U862, Bordeaux, France
- 2000 - 2006 Junior CNRS Investigator (CR2), Lab Neurobiologie Cellulaire et moléculaire, UPR9040 CNRS, Gif/Yvette, France
- 1999 - 2000 Post-doctoral scholar, Mentor Jacopo MELDOLESI. Dept of Neuroscience, DIBIT, Milano, Italy
- 1996 - 1999 Post-doctoral scholar, Mentor Solomon H SNYDER. Dept of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- 1993 - 1996 PhD Student, Mentor Ladislav TAUC, Lab Neurobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, UPR9040 CNRS, Gif/Yvette, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Physiopathology of NMDA receptors and co-agonists
- Synapse physiology and plasticity
- Neuropharmacology
- Role of D-Amino acids in physiology and pathology
- Development of advanced analytical and optical tools for D-amino acids
- Cell biology and Biophysics of gliotransmission
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Scientific Committee, International Research Center on D-amino acids (https://www.d-aminoacids.com/our-team
)
- 2018 Elected Senior Research Visiting Fellow, Jesus College, Universty of Oxford, UK
- 2015 Elected Council member of European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN)
- 2015 'Equipe FRM’ Award (Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale)
- 2013 France Alzheimer Award
- 2012 France-Berkeley Award (together with Pr. Mike Rogawski UC Davis)
