Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering provides an international peer-reviewed forum to facilitate the discussion between engineering and biological science to find efficient solutions in the development and improvement of bioprocesses. The aim of the journal is to focus more attention on the multidisciplinary approaches for integrative bioprocess design. Of special interest are the rational manipulation of biosystems through metabolic engineering techniques to provide new biocatalysts as well as the model based design of bioprocesses (up-stream processing, bioreactor operation and downstream processing) that will lead to new and sustainable production processes.
Contributions are targeted at new approaches for rational and evolutive design of cellular systems by taking into account the environment and constraints of technical production processes, integration of recombinant technology and process design, as well as new hybrid intersections such as bioinformatics and process systems engineering. Manuscripts concerning the design, simulation, experimental validation, control, and economic as well as ecological evaluation of novel processes using biosystems or parts thereof (e.g., enzymes, microorganisms, mammalian cells, plant cells, or tissue), their related products, or technical devices are also encouraged.
The Editors will consider papers for publication based on novelty, their impact on biotechnological production and their contribution to the advancement of bioprocess and biosystems engineering science. Submission of papers dealing with routine aspects of bioprocess engineering (e.g., routine application of established methodologies, and description of established equipment) are discouraged.
The journal publishes Original Papers, Short Communications and invited Reviews.
Fields of interest: Bioprocess Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Bioengineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biocatalysis, Systems Biology, Biology, Tissue Engineering, Life-Science Engineering, Medicine.

Editor-in-Chief:
Dirk Weuster-Botz
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Bioverfahrenstechnik
Boltzmannstr. 15
85748 Garching, Germany 
e-mail: BPBSE@lrz.tum.de
Associate Editors:
Jie Bao
Professor of Biochemical Engineering
Biomass Energy and Biorefinery Lab (BEBL)
State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering
East China University of Science and Technology
130 Meilong Road
Shanghai 200237, China
email: jbao@ecust.edu.cn

Frank Delvigne 
Université de Liège 
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech 
TERRA research and teaching centre 
Microbial Processes and Interactions (MiPI) 
Avenue de la Faculté, 2B 
5030 Gembloux, Belgium
email: f.delvigne@uliege.be
Beth Junker
Principal Consultant and Owner
BioProcess Advantage LLC
1009 Cranford Avenue
Westfield, NJ 07090´, USA
email: junker@bioprocessadvantage.com

Tingyue Gu 
Ohio University
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
Stocker 167B
Athens, Ohio 45701, USA 
email: gu@ohio.edu
Sang Yup Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST)
Metabolic Engineering National Research Lab.
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon 305-701, Korea
email: leesy@kaist.ac.kr
Hiroshi Shimizu
Osaka University
Department of Bioinformatic Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Yamadaoka 2-1, Suita 
Osaka 65-0871, Japan
e-mail: shimizu@bio.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Ya-Jie Tang
Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering
(Ministry of Education)
Hubei University of Technology
Wuhan, 43oo68, China
e-mail: yajietang@QQ.com
Jian-Jiang Zhong
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
College of Life Science & Biotechnology
800 Dong Chuan Road
Minhang, Shanghai 200240
China
email: jjzhong@sjtu.edu.cn

Editorial Advisory Board:
Juan A. Asenjo, Santiago, Chile
Lars Blank, Aachen, Germany
Andreas Bommarius, Atlanta, USA
Jong Hyun Choi, Jeonbuk, Korea
Michel Eppink, Wageningen, Netherlands
Guilherme M. Ferreira, Faro, Portugal
Krist V. Gernaey, Lyngby, Denmark
Bhaskar S. Gupta, Edinburgh, UK
Jun-ichi Horiuchi, Kitami, Japan
He Huang, Nanjing, China
Yong-Su Jin, Urbana, USA
Alois Jungbauer, Vienna, Austria
Rudibert King, Berlin, Germany
Jens Kroemer, Leipzig, Germany
Alvaro R Lara, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Stanislaw Ledakowicz, Lódz, Poland
Gunnar Lidén, Lund, Sweden
Zheng Liu, Beijing, China
Gary Lye, London, UK
Carl-Fredrik Mandenius, Linköping, Sweden
John A. Morgan, West Lafayette, USA
Trent Munro, Thousand Oaks, USA
Lars Nielsen, Brisbane, Australia
Marco Oldiges, Juelich, Germany
Takeshi Omasa, Tokushima, Japan
Marcel Ottens, HZ Delft, Netherlands
Si Jae Park, Seoul, Korea
Tae Jung Park, Seoul, Korea
Jérémy Pruvost, Saint-Nazaire Cedex, France
Zhigang Qian, Shanghai, China
Jin Ho Seo, Seoul, Korea
Tae Seok Seo, Daejeon, Korea
Suren Singh, Durban, South Africa
Antje Spiess, Braunschweig, Germany
Urs von Stockar, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ralf Takors, Stuttgart, Germany
Helen Treichel, Erechim, Brazil
Durda Vasic-Racki, Zagreb, Croatia
Christoph Wittmann, Saarbrücken, Germany
Roland Wohlgemuth, Buchs, Switzerland
John Woodley, Lyngby, Denmark
Ping Xu, Shanghai, China
Shan-Jing Yao, Hangzhou, China
Yang-Chun Yong, Zhenjiang, China
Minghua Zhou, Tianjin, China