Special Issue: Metabolic Pathway Engineering

Special Issue Call for Papers: Metabolic Pathway Engineering

We invite you to submit your paper for consideration to the Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology special issue before July 31^st, 2017.

The metabolic pathways of organisms can be rewired to produce a variety of commodity and specialty chemicals, including biofuels, bioplastics, monomers, drugs, pigments, fragrances, and flavorants from renewable sources. Biosynthetic pathways are constructed using endogenous or exogenous enzymes; and may be tailored from natural metabolic pathways, or built de novo using systems-based approaches to make compounds that are not produced in natural organisms.

The main topics of consideration for this special issue include:

• New metabolic pathways for valuable products
• Metabolic pathway optimization
• Synthetic biology tools for metabolic engineering
• Systems metabolic engineering
• Enzyme engineering
• High throughput technologies for metabolic engineering
• Subcellular (organelle) metabolic engineering
• Metabolic engineering in non-model organisms
• Transcriptional regulation of metabolic pathways
• Multivariate-modular metabolic pathway engineering
• Biosensors for metabolic engineering
• Cell consortia metabolic engineering
• Directed evolution for strain improvement
• Computational modeling for pathway engineering
• Biochemical engineering
• New methods in biochemistry, molecular biology, or microbiology for metabolic pathway engineering
• Combinatorial pathway engineering
• Multiplex metabolic pathway engineering
• Refactoring natural product and other metabolic pathways

Yours sincerely,

Special Issue Guest Editors

• Hal S. Alper, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States, halper@che.utexas.edu
• Jose L. Avalos, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, javalos@princeton.edu