Istvan Katona, PhD

Istvan Katona works as Naus Family Chair in Addiction Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington and as senior consultant at HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest. His research team focuses on the adaptive and maladaptive plasticity mechanisms underlying cannabis effects and endocannabinoid signaling in the brain. His main contributions include the molecular architecture for retrograde endocannabinoid signaling in synapses; the synaptic circuit-breaker model for the role of endocannabinoids in epilepsy; and the development of STORM super-resolution imaging methodologies for nanoscale imaging of cannabis effects. He is a lifetime member of the Academia Europea and EMBO. In his talk, he will present new super-resolution microscopy approaches for cell-type-specific cannabinoid nanopharmacology in complex tissues.