Michelle L. Osborn

Michelle Osborn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Dr. Osborn is a broadly and classically trained comparative morphologist with specific interests in the functional relationship between posture & movement and the musculoskeletofascial system. Her graduate work in the labs of Robert Tague (M.A.; Department of Geography & Anthropology, LSU) and Dominique G. Homberger (Ph.D.; Department of Biological Sciences, LSU) focused on understanding the role of fascia in the head, neck and shoulders of humans and other animals, as well as the evolution of this complex. As a post-doctoral fellow (2013 to 2015) in Elizabeth W. Uhl’s lab in the Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, she studied the synchronization of horse and rider, and the causal relationship between aberrant biomechanics and tissue degeneration (i.e., pathomechanics).

Due to her expertise in veterinary anatomy, Dr. Osborn was recruited as faculty at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016. She trains first year students in the morphological sciences (i.e., anatomy, histology, embryology) while using the conceptual framework of biotensegrity to continue her research in the structure, function and degeneration of the musculoskeletofascial system, and its evolutionary and clinical implications.