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Microbial Cell Factories is an open access peer-reviewed journal that covers any topic related to the development, use and investigation of microbial cells as producers of recombinant proteins and natural products, or as catalyzers of biological transformations of industrial interest. Microbial Cell Factories is the world leading, primary research journal fully focusing on Applied Microbiology.
The journal is divided into the following editorial sections:
Metabolic engineering
Synthetic biology
Whole-cell biocatalysis
Microbial regulations
Recombinant protein production/bioprocessing
Production of natural compounds
Systems biology of cell factories
Microbial production processes
Cell-free systems

Research
Commentary
Review
Technical notes

Editor-in-Chief
Prof Grzegorz Wegrzyn, University of Gdansk, Poland
Founding Editor
Prof Antonio Villaverde, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 

Associate Editors
Dr Joong-Hoon Ahn, Konkuk University, South Korea
Prof Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Prof Shota Atsumi, University of California, Davis, United States of America
Dr Paola Branduardi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 
Prof Guo-Qiang Chen, Tsinghua University, China 
Dr Rachel Chen, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, United States of America 
Dr José Luis Corchero, CIBER-BBN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Prof Nancy Da Silva, University of California, Irvine, United States of America 
Dr Ario de Marco, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia 
Prof Guo-Cheng Du, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, China 
Dr Pau Ferrer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 
Dr Elena García-Fruitós, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, Spain 
Dr Brigitte Gasser, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria 
Dr Guillermo Gosset, Instituto de Biotecnología/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico 
Prof  Ki Jun Jeong, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea 
Prof Yong-Su Jin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Prof Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea 
Prof Yue-zhong Li, Shandong University, China
Prof Andriy Luzhetskyy, Saarland University, Germany
Dr Diego Oyarzun, Imperial College London, United Kingdom 
Dr Maria Papagianni, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 
Prof Danilo Porro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Prof Kenneth F Reardon, Colorado State University, United States of America  
Prof Ezio Ricca, Federico II University, Italy
Prof Ursula Rinas, GBF German Research Center for Biotechnology, Germany 
Dr Michael Sauer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria 
Dr Joseph Shiloach, National Institute of Health, United States of America
Prof Hiroshi Shimizu, Osaka University, Japan 
Dr Pat Slininger, USDA, United States of America
Prof Yinjie Tang, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America
Prof Marla Trindade, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Dr Norma Adriana Valdez-Cruz, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Prof Claudia Vickers, CSIRO, Australia
Prof Christoph Wittman, Saarland University, Germany
Prof Zhinan Xu, Zhejiang University, China
Prof Yajun Yan, University of Georgia, United States of America

Editorial Board
Dr Pratul Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America 
Dr Ricardo Amils, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 
Dr Vasco Azevedo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Prof Antonio O Ballesteros, CSIC Institute of Catalysis, Spain
Prof François Baneyx, University of Washington, United States of America
Prof Sanjoy K Bhattacharya, University of Miami, United States of America  
Prof Karl Bayer, University of Agricultural Sciences, Austria 
Prof Roslyn Bill, Aston University, United Kingdom 
Prof Mark Blenner, Clemson University, United States of America
Dr Daniel Bracewell, University College London, United Kingdom 
Prof Hyung Joon Cha, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Prof Donald A Cowan, University of the Western Cape, South Africa   
Dr Adelfo Escalante, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Dr Luis P. Fonseca ,Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal 
Dr Vijai Gupta, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
Prof Zoya Ignatova, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany 
Dr Maria Klapa, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences, Greece 
Prof Akihiko Kondo, Kobe University, Japan 
Prof Krishna Jyoti, Mukherjee Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dr Alvaro Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Prof Yin Li, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Dr Zhanglin Lin, South China University of Technology, China 
Prof Long Liu, Jiangnan University, China
Dr Juan F. Martin, University of León, Spain 
Prof Rolf Müller, Saarland University, Germany 
Prof Peter Neubauer, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Prof Jens Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 
Prof Laura Palomares, Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM, Mexico
Dr Ramesh Pandey, Sun Moon University, South Korea
Prof Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
Prof Kristala Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Prof Hiroshi Shimizu, Osaka University, Japan 
Prof Arne Skerra, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany 
Dr Mauricio A. Trujillo-Roldán, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Commissioning Editor
Elena García-Fruitós, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, Spain