University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Laura Olsen

Laura Olsen

  • Director of the Program in Biology
    Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of MCDB
    Professor of EEB
Olsen Lab

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    4103C / 4119 / 4125 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Office: (734) 763-0976
  • Lab: (734) 647-3970
  • Email: ljo@umich.edu

Fields of study

Plant cell biology; peroxisome physiology, proteomics, assembly, and degradation

Academic background

Professor Olsen earned her Ph.D. degree in Botany from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis.  Her Master’s degree in Botany is from Iowa State University.  She did her bachelor’s degree at Doane College in Crete, NE, where she had a double major in math and biology, and a minor in German.  Since being at the University of Michigan, she was awarded the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award in 1996, the Amoco Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2000, the John Dewey Teaching Award in 2011, and has been an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor since 2001.

UM affiliation