Tayla Olsen

Tayla Olsen

Graduate student

Seattle MCB

Tayla earned her B.S. in Biochemistry and History of Science from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2014, and she spent the next 6-years working as a technician/lab manager in several immunology-focused labs in Seattle. Notably, in Dr. Sean Murphy’s lab, she developed a pre-clinical T cell-based malaria vaccine. Tayla is now a graduate student at the University of Washington in the MCB program where she aims to obtain her PhD studying T and B cell responses to commensal microbes in health and disease. When not at the bench, she enjoys all manner of outdoor pursuits, baking, and gardening.