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Name LINDA S. WADICHE  
Campus Address SHEL 1003 Zip 2182
Phone 205-996-6414
E-mail lwadiche@uab.edu" id="FacultyDetail1EmailAddress"><a href="mailto:lwadiche@uab.edu">lwadiche@uab.edu</a>
URL http://www.neurobiology.uab.edu/Faculty/Wadiche_L/Lwadiche.htm
 
 

Department Affiliations(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Center  Center for Aging  Center for Aging Associate Professor
Center  Civitan International Research Center  Civitan International Research Center Associate Professor
Center  General Clinical Research Center  Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Associate Professor
Center  Ctr for Glial Bio in Med  Ctr for Glial Bio in Med Associate Professor
Primary  Neurobiology  Neurobiology Associate Professor
Secondary  Cell, Developmntl, & Integrative Biology  Cell, Developmntl, & Integrative Biology Associate Professor

Biographical Sketch 
Linda Overstreet Wadiche received a BS in Biology from North Park University in Chicago, IL. In 1997 she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. N. Traverse Slater. From 1998-2004 she was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Gary Westbrook at the Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wadiche became a Research Assistant Professor at the Vollum Institute in 2004. In June of 2006 she joined the Department of Neurobiology at UAB as an Assistant Professor.

Society Memberships
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Research/Clinical Interest
Title
The function of adult generated neurons
Description
Most neurons in the brain are generated during embryogenesis. However, neural stem cells in discrete regions of the adult continuously produce newborn neurons that can functionally integrate by forming synapses with the existing neural circuitry. One of the regions where adult neurogenesis occurs is the dentate gyrus, an area that is involved learning and memory. My laboratory focuses on the mechanisms underlying functional maturation and synaptogenesis of newborn granule cells, the principal neurons in the dentate gyrus. We use a variety of techniques to explore how newborn neurons survive and integrate, and how these processes are modified by aging, exercise and disease.

Postdoc Positions Available
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Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
Ivy/Neurogliaform interneurons coordinate activity in the neurogenic niche.
Markwardt SJ, Dieni CV, Wadiche JI, Overstreet-Wadiche L
Nat Neurosci 2011 In press 		  
Input-specific GABAergic signaling to newborn neurons in adult dentate gyrus.
Markwardt SJ, Wadiche JI, Overstreet-Wadiche LS.
J Neurosci. 2009 Dec 2;29(48):15063-72. 		 19955357 
Microglia shape adult hippocampal neurogenesis through apoptosis-coupled phagocytosis.
Sierra A, Encinas JM, Deudero JJ, Chancey JH, Enikolopov G, Overstreet-Wadiche LS, Tsirka SE, Maletic-Savatic M.
Cell Stem Cell. 2010 Oct 8;7(4):483-95. 		 20887954 
Enhanced integration of newborn neurons after neonatal insults.
Pugh P, Adlaf E, Zhao CS, Markwardt S, Gavin C, Wadiche J, Overstreet-Wadiche L.
Front Neurosci. 2011 Mar 30;5:45. 		 21490706 
Desynchronization of multivesicular release enhances Purkinje cell output.
Rudolph S, Overstreet-Wadiche L, Wadiche JI.
Neuron. 2011 Jun 9;70(5):991-1004. 		 21658590 
 

Keywords
synapse, neurogenesis, epilepsy, hippocampus,

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