Kelly Craven, Ph.D., is a native of Phoenix, Arizona and has been working with endophytic microbes for 25 years. He received his B.S. in Zoology at Arizona State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky. He joined the Noble Research Institute in 2006 as a faculty member and currently serves as Associate Professor. His main research objective(s) are applied in nature, focusing on the use of microbial symbiosis to facilitate low-input agriculture.