1. Advances and opportunity in design of microbial cell factories for production of biomolecules 2. Advances in long DNA synthesis 3. Discovery of enzymes responsible for cyclization and post-modification in triterpenoid biosynthesis 4. Synthetic biology for metabolic engineering of secondary metabolites 5. Synthetic biology design tools for metabolic engineering 6. Metabolic engineering for microbial cell factories 7. CRISPR based tools for microbial cell factories 8. Escherichia coli, the workhorse cell factory for the production of chemicals 9. Bacillus subtilis based microbial cell factories 10. Pseudomonas putida- based cell factories 11. Streptomyces based cell factories for production of biomolecules and bioactive metabolites 12. Corynebacteriumglutamicum as a robust microbial factory for production of value-added proteins and small molecules: Fundamentals and applications 13. Production of high value-added chemicals in engineering methylotrophic cell factories 14. Cyanobacteria based microbial cell factories for production of industrial products 15. Integrated omics perspective to understand the production of high-value added biomolecules (HVABs) in microalgal cell factories 16. Saccharomycescerevisiae as a microbial cell factory 17. Pichiapastoris based microbial cell factories 18. Yarrowialipolytica engineering as a source of microbial cell factories 19. Engineering of microbial cell factories for production of plant-based natural products 20. Engineering of microbial cell factories for Omic-guided production of medically important biomolecules 21. Advances and applications of cell-free systems for metabolic production 22. Microbial biosensors for discovery and engineering of enzymes and metabolism 23. Manipulation of global regulators in Escherichiacoli for the synthesis of biotechnologically relevant products