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Tal Danino’s research explores the emerging field of synthetic biology, focusing on engineering bacteria gene circuits to create novel behaviors that have biomedical applications.
The interaction of microbes and tumors is a major target of his work, where DNA sequences and synthetic biology approaches are used to program bacteria as diagnostics and therapeutics in cancer. Danino also brings this science outside the laboratory as a TED Fellow and through science-art projects.
Danino received his BS in physics, chemistry, and math from the University of California in Los Angeles in 2005 and earned his PhD in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2011. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2011 – 2015. He joined the faculty of Columbia Biomedical Engineering in 2016 and is a member of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and Data Science Institute.