Dr Edwin Barrios-Villa is a professor at the Department of Chemical and Agricultural Sciences at Universidad de Sonora. He completed his PhD studies in 2019 at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and has been awarded cum Laude. He recently led the "Characterization of Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy donors" and "Comparative Genomics of Leclercia adecarboxylata" projects. He has published 25 papers in various journals, and serves as a numeral member of American Society for Microbiology, as well as a founding member of the Asociación Poblana de Ciencias Microbiológicas. His teaching disciplines include general microbiology, medical bacteriology, immunology, general virology, molecular biology, and genetics, and his interests include Biochemical and Molecular identification of microorganisms, surveillance of multi-drug resistant pathogens, identification of emerging and re-emerging pathogens, sequencing, and comparative genomics of microorganisms.