Tal Danino's research focuses on understanding how networks of genes interact in biological systems, and developing design principles to re-engineer new biological behaviors that have practical applications.

He is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, Sangeeta Bhatia's lab, as well as a visiting fellow at the Rockefeller University in New York City. As a postdoctoral fellow, he researches the use of bacteria as cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. His research has been published in scientific journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell.

Danino also develops "Bio-Art" projects that share images and stories about science, as in his recent collaboration with Vik Muniz. In 2015, Tal was selected as a TED Fellow.

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