Strategies for Microbial Bioprocess Optimization
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metabolic engineering; fermentation; synthetic biology; bioreactor design; synthetic microbial communities; biomass; renewable substrates
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue particularly welcomes reviews and original research papers that explore the use of metabolic engineering for the bioproduction of value-added compounds, biofuels, or bio-energy using renewable feedstocks and waste streams. Themes to be addressed may include but are not limited to the following areas:
-Strain engineering for efficient utilization of diverse feedstocks, including C1 substrates, agro-industrial feedstocks, and waste streams.
-Adaptive laboratory evolution.
-Application of metabolic modeling approaches, such as kinetic modeling or genome-scale metabolic modeling, to optimize substrate utilization.
-Machine-learning based methods to enhance carbon utilization and bioprocess optimization.
-Synthetic and natural microbial communities.
-Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis to evaluate the environmental and economic sustainability of engineered microbial systems.
Dr. Razieh Rafieenia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metabolic engineering
- fermentation
- synthetic biology
- bioreactor design
- synthetic microbial communities
- machine learning based process design
- renewable substrates
- life cycle assessment
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