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Paco Barona-Goméz

Dr. Francisco (Paco) Barona- Goméz is a Principal Investigator at Cinvestav UGA-Langebio in Irapuato, Mexico. His interests are in microbial diversity and evolution, particularly as how that’s applied to the way we think about and explore secondary metabolism.

In this episode of the podcast, we talked a lot about terminology, especially around “secondary metabolism” versus “specialized metabolism” and “primary metabolism” versus “centralized metabolism” and why and how they’re different when we take things from a human-centric view rather than a microbe-centric one. It was so fun, and I learned a ton. I hope you will too!

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