Stephen Jones is a wheat breeder and the Director of the The Bread Lab, Washington State University. Stephen has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Davis and teaches graduate courses in advanced classical genetics and in the history and ethics of genetics. He holds the Clif Bar and  King Arthur Flour Endowed Chair in Organic Grain Breeding and Innovation. Together with his graduate students and staff he breeds wheat and other grains for local uses to be grown on small farms in the coastal West, the upper Northeast and other under-served regions of the country. The Bread Lab is a baking laboratory at Washington State University where scientists, bakers, chefs, farmers, maltsters, brewers, distillers and millers experiment with improved flavor, nutrition and functionality of regional and obscure non-commodity wheats, other small grains and beans.