Biotechnology for Biofuel Production and Optimization Preface 1. Engineering Central Metabolism for Production of Higher Alcohol-based Biofuels 2. Secondary metabolism for isoprenoid-based biofuels 3. Metabolic engineering for fatty acid, biodiesel production 4. Pathway and strain design for biofuels production 5. RNA-based molecular sensors for biosynthetic pathway design, evolution, and optimization 6. Pathway Assembly and Optimization 7. Design of Dynamic Pathways 8. Applications of Constraint-Based Models for Biochemical Production 9. Biotechnological strategies for advanced biofuels production: enhancing tolerance phenotypes through genome-scale modifications 10. Evolutionary Methods for Improving Production of Biorenewable Fuels and Chemicals 11. Biomass utilization 12. Ralstonia eutropha H16 as a platform for the production of biofuels, biodegradable plastics, and fine chemicals from diverse carbon resources 13. Methane Biocatalysis: Selecting the Right Strain 14. Photosynthetic Platform Strain Selection: Strain Selection Considerations and Large Scale Production Limitations 15. Interpreting and designing microbial communities, from components to interactions to emergent properties 16. Cell-free biotransformation 17. Microbial Electrochemical Cells and Biorefinery Energy Efficiency 18. PhotoBioHybrid Solar Conversion with Metalloenzymes and Photosynthetic Reaction Centers 19. Photobioreactors 20. Scale-up Considerations for Biofuels.